John Garvan Murtha

John Garvan Murtha (born March 3, 1941) is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. Education and career Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Murtha received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1963, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1968, and a Master of Laws from Georgetown University Law Center in 1970. He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia, South America from 1963 to 1965 and was an E. Barrett Prettyman fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center from 1968 to 1970. Murtha served as a Deputy State's Attorney of Windham County, Vermont and as an Environmental Commissioner, Vermont District II, from 1970 to 1973. From 1973 to 1995, he was in private practice as a partner at Kristensen, Cummings & Murtha in Brattleboro, Vermont. He also served on the Vermont Judicial Nominating Board from 1980 to 1986, the Vermont Judicial Nominating Advisory Commission for the United States District Court and Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1989 and 1992, and as chairman of the Vermont Commission on Low-Level Nuclear Waste from 1987 to 1990. Federal judicial service