John Frank Murphy

From 2008 to 2009, Murphy served as a law clerk for Judge Kimberly A. Moore of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. From 2007 to 2022, he was a partner with the Philadelphia office of BakerHostetler where he focused on intellectual property litigation.^[3]

In 2019, Murphy represented a number of plaintiffs suing to block the Pennsylvania Secretary of State's certification of ExpressVote XL electronic voting machines, challenging the security, reliability, and accuracy of the machines.^[4][5][6][7]

Since 2014, he has worked as an adjunct professor of law at Rutgers Law School and Villanova Charles Widger School of Law, where he teaches patent litigation.^[8][9]

On July 12, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Murphy to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Murphy had been recommended by Senator Patrick Toomey and was nominated as part of a bipartisan package of nominees which included Kelley B. Hodge, Kai Scott, and Mia Roberts Perez.^[10] President Biden nominated Murphy to the seat vacated by Judge Lawrence F. Stengel, who retired on August 31, 2018.^[11] On September 7, 2022, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.^[12] On September 28, 2022, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 18–4 vote.^[13] On December 7, 2022, the United States Senate confirmed his nomination by a 63–28 vote.^[14] He received his judicial commission on December 23, 2022.^[15]

• John Frank Murphy at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.