Joseph Patrick Lieb
{{Short description|American judge}}
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| office = Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
| term_start = 1966
| term_end = 1971
| predecessor = John Milton Bryan Simpson
| successor = William McRae
| office1 = Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
| term_start1 = October 29, 1962
| term_end1 = November 2, 1971
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| predecessor1 = Seat established by 76 Stat. 247
| successor1 = William Terrell Hodges
| office2 = Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
| term_start2 = August 13, 1955
| term_end2 = October 29, 1962
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| appointer2 = Dwight D. Eisenhower
| predecessor2 = John W. Holland
| successor2 = Seat abolished
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|09|04}}
| birth_place = Faribault, Minnesota
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Joseph Patrick Lieb (September 4, 1901 – November 2, 1971) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Education and career
Born on September 4, 1901, in Faribault, Minnesota, Lieb received a Bachelor of Laws in 1924 from Georgetown Law. He was a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1925 to 1931. He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida from 1931 to 1934. He was in private practice in Tampa, Florida from 1934 to 1955.{{FJC Bio|1396|nid=1383901|name=Joseph Patrick Lieb}}
Federal judicial service
Lieb received a recess appointment from President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 13, 1955, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida vacated by Judge John W. Holland. He was nominated to the same position by President Eisenhower on January 12, 1956. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 1, 1956, and received his commission the next day. Lieb was reassigned by operation of law to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on October 29, 1962, to a new seat authorized by 76 Stat. 247. He served as Chief Judge from 1966 to 1971. His service terminated on November 2, 1971, due to his death.
=Notable case=
On the bench, Lieb presided over the first desegregation of Pinellas County, Florida schools and two other counties.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}} He scrupulously followed the lead of higher federal courts when school desegregation cases began to come his way in the middle 1960s, even though his decisions were sometimes at odds with his own conservative leanings.{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}}
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- {{FJC Bio|1396|nid=1383901|name=Joseph Patrick Lieb}}
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Category:People from Faribault, Minnesota
Category:Georgetown University Law Center alumni
Category:Federal Bureau of Investigation agents
Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Category:United States district court judges appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower