Background
Mansmann, Carol Los was born on August 7, 1942 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Walter Joseph and Regina Mary Los.
Mansmann, Carol Los was born on August 7, 1942 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Daughter of Walter Joseph and Regina Mary Los.
Bachelor, Juris Doctor, Duquesne University, 1964. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Duquesne University, 1998. Bachelor, Juris Doctor, Duquesne University, 1967.
Doctor of Laws, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1985. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), La Roche College, 1990. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Widener University, 1994.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Mansmann received a Bachelor of Arts from Duquesne University in 1964 and a Juris Doctor from Duquesne University School of Law in 1967. She was a law clerk to Ralph H. Smith, Junior. of the Allegheny County, Court of Common Pleas from 1967 to 1968, and then an assistant district attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania from 1968 to 1972. She had a private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1973 to 1979, and was also a special assistant to the Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 1974 to 1979.
Mansmann was on the faculty of the Duquesne University School of Law as an associate professor of law from 1974 to 1983, and later as an adjunct professor of law from 1987 to 1994.
On February 23, 1982, Mansmann was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania vacated by William West. Knox. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 18, 1982, and received her commission on March 19, 1982.
On March 7, 1985, Reagan elevated Mansmann to a new seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit created by 98 Statistics 333. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 3, 1985, and received her commission the following day (although her District Court service technically did not terminate until April 22, 1985).
Mansmann served on the Third Circuit in Pittsburgh until her death from breast cancer in 2002.
Member board consultors Villanova University Law School, 1985—1991. Trustee Duquesne University, from 1987, Sewickley Academy, 1988—1991. Member of American Bar Association, Allegheny County Bar Association (governor, board governors 1982-1985), American Judicature Society, Federal Judges Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association, National Association Women Judges, Phi Alpha Delta.
Married J. Jerome Mansmann, June 27, 1970. Children: Casey, Megan, Patrick.