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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. |