Retired Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal Judge Thomas J. Kliebert, 76, died May 30, 2002. He earned his undergraduate degree from Tulane University in 1946 and his LLB from Loyola University school of Law in 1953. A Navy veteran, serving 1943-1945, Judge Kliebert was a tax accountant and tax lawyer from 1947-1957 and was in the general practice of law from 1953-1980. He was elected to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal in 1980 where he served until his election to a new judgeship in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal in 1982, where he served until his retirement in October 1995. Judge Kliebert also was named Chief Judge of the Fifth Circuit in 1991.