Robert J. Colville
Robert John Colville (born 1965) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Biography Colville grew up on the North Side of Pittsburgh and was the middle of three children of Robert E. and Judy Joyce Colville. Colville received a Bachelor of Arts from Pennsylvania State University in 1989 and his Juris Doctor from Duquesne University School of Law in 1992. He began his legal career by serving as a law clerk from 1992 to 1994 to the Honorable Ralph J. Cappy, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He worked as an associate at the law firm of Pietragallo Bosick & Gordon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1994 to 1999. From 2000 to 2019, Colville served as a judge on the Court of Common Pleas for Allegheny County, where he presided over civil matters. From 2012 to 2019, he served as a judge on the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline. Federal judicial service Expired nomination to district court under Obama On July 30, 2015, President Obama nominated Colville to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, to