Jeffrey L. Schmehl

Jeffrey Louis Schmehl (born November 1955) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Biography Schmehl received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1977 from Dickinson College. He received his Juris Doctor in 1980 from the University of Toledo College of Law. He served as an Assistant Public Defender in Berks County, Pennsylvania, from 1980 to 1981. From 1981 to 1986, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in Berks County and also worked as a sole practitioner in West Reading. He joined the law firm of Rhoda, Stoudt & Bradley in 1986, becoming partner in 1988 and serving with that firm until 1997. During much of that time period he served as Berks County Solicitor. He became a judge of the Berks County Court of Common Pleas and served as President Judge of that court from 2008 to 2013. Federal judicial service