He was a chief counsel to the Federal Transit Administration from 1994 to 1996, and was an appellate judge on the Superior Court of Pennsylvania from 1996 to 2000.
On August 1, 2013, President Obama nominated Smith to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to the seat vacated by Judge Berle M. Schiller, who took senior status on June 18, 2012.
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