title: Thomas Demetrios Lambros
text: # Thomas Demetrios Lambros
  
  Thomas Demetrios Lambros (February 4, 1930 – December 3, 2019) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
  
  ## Education and career
  
  Lambros was born in Ashtabula, Ohio and attended Ashtabula High School. He received a Bachelor of Laws from Cleveland State University College of Law in 1952. He was a Claims Representative for the Buckeye Union Casualty Company in Akron, Ohio from 1952 to 1953. He was in the United States Army as a law clerk in the Judge Advocate General's Corps from 1954 to 1956 and became a staff sergeant. He was in private practice of law in Ashtabula from 1956 to 1961. He was a judge of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas from 1961 to 1967.
  
  ### Federal judicial service
  
  Lambros was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson on June 5, 1967, to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, to a new seat created by 80 Stat. 75. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 18, 1967, and received his commission the same day. He served as Chief Judge from 1990 to 1995, becoming both the first Greek American federal judge and first Greek American Chief Judge of a federal court. His service was terminated on February 10, 1995, due to his retirement.
  
  ## Post judicial service and death
  
  After his retirement from the federal bench, Lambros engaged in the private practice of law with the firm of Janik LLP and was active until his death. Lambros died unexpectedly on December 3, 2019, in Jensen Beach, Florida, after collapsing while walking.
  
  ## Honor
  
  The Thomas D. Lambros Federal Building & United States Courthouse, built in Youngstown, Ohio in 1995, was named for Lambros in 1996.
  
  