Education
He graduated from Syracuse University in 1966 and from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1971.
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Norman Mordue
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From 1972 to 1982, he worked for the district attorney in Onondaga County, New York, the last six years as chief prosecutor. He was a county court judge from 1982 to 1988, and a State Supreme Court justice in Onondaga County from 1986 to 1998. Upon the recommendation of Senator Alfonse Doctorate"Amato, President Bill Clinton nominated Mordue to replace Rosemary South. Pooler on the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York in July 1998.
Mordue was confirmed unanimously by the Senate in October 1998, and took office on December 4.
He took senior status on June 30, 2013. He was Chief Judge of the court from 2006 to 2011.
Mordue has three times ruled in favor of the school district"s censorship of religious content in an assignment in Peck v. Baldwinsville School District.
He also ruled in favor of a school district censoring a student newspaper"s cartoon of stick figures in sexual positions in R.O. v.
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Bronze Star Medal; Purple Heart Distinguished Service Cross; Purple Heart
The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed, while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the U.S. military.The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President to those wounded or killed, while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the U.S. military.