Background
Pete Karem, Edmund was born on March 13, 1941 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
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Edmund Pete Karem
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Bellarmine College (Bachelor of Arts, 1963). University of Louisville (Juris Doctor, 1968).
Career
Worked at Sitlinger, McGlincy, Steiner, Theiler & Karem (Louisville, Kentucky) specializing in Litigation, Negligence, Products Liability, Aviation, Insurance, Family, Workers Compensation, Medical and Legal Negligence Law. Admitted to the bar, 1968 Kentucky and United States. District Court, Western District of Kentucky.
Phi Kappa Phi.
Brandeis Society. Recipient, Judge of the Year, Louisville Bar Association, 1988. Instructor: Automobile Insurance, Circuit Judges Judicial College, Lexington, Kentucky, October 1992.
Civil Law and Procedure, Circuit Judges Orientation, Lake Cumberland State Park, December 1991. Death Penalty Cases, Circuit Judges Judicial College, Lake Barkley State Park, September 1985.
Participant, Circuit Judges Faculty Development, Lexington, Kentucky, September 1991.
Panel Participant: Termination of Parental Rights Seminar, Lexington, Kentucky, April 1991. Circuit Judges Judicial Writing Program, Frankfort, Kentucky, May 1986. Jefferson Circuit Court Judge, 1984-1992.
Chairman, Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, 1976-1983.
Board of Overseers, Spalding College, 1983-1985. Chief Judge, Jefferson Circuit Court, 1986-1987.
President, Kentucky Association of Circuit Judges, 1991-1992. Member: Louisville (Secretary, 1977, Vice President, 1978, President-Elect, 1979, President, 1980 and Member, Board of Directors, 1981-1982, 1988-1989, 1993-1994) and Kentucky Bar Associations.
Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys (Member, Board of Governors, 1979-1984 and Third District Vice President, 1981-1982).
Military: United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1960-1966. Sitlinger, McGlincy, Steiner & Theiler was founded in 1985 by Lee East. Sitlinger, Dennis R. McGlincy, Jack West. Steiner Junior, and Charles East. Theiler, II, former classmates and graduates of the University of Louisville School of Law. Edmund Pete Karem, former Judge of the Jefferson Circuit Court joined the Firm on January 4, 1993.
The Firm engages in all areas of civil trial litigation throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky in both State and Federal Courts.
All members of the firm participate in continuing professional development, professional association activities and numerous civic affairs
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Membership
Member: Louisville (Secretary, 1977, Vice President, 1978, President-Elect, 1979, President, 1980 and Member, Board of Directors, 1981-1982, 1988-1989, 1993-1994) and Kentucky Bar Associations. Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys (Member, Board of Governors, 1979-1984 and Third District Vice President, 1981-1982). Military: United States Marine Corps Reserve, 1960-1966.
