Thomas Aquinas Flannery

Thomas Aquinas Flannery (May 10, 1918 – September 20, 2007) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Education and career Born in Washington, D.C., Flannery received a Bachelor of Laws from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in 1940. He was in private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1940 to 1942, and was then in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, from 1942 to 1945, returning to private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1945 to 1948. He was a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. from 1948 to 1950, and an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1950 to 1962. He again returned to private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1962 to 1969, and was the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1969 to 1971. Federal judicial service