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FORMER FEDERAL JUDGE TO PRESENT STICHT LECTURE |
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October 22, 2009
GROVE CITY, Pa. – The Hon. Robert J. Cindrich, senior vice president and chief legal officer for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and former U.S. District Court judge, will present Grove City College’s J. Paul Sticht ’39 Lecture in Business and Ethics at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters on campus.
Cindrich’s presentation, “Principled Governance and Leadership,” is free and open to the public. The annual lecture in business and ethics is given in honor of the late J. Paul Sticht ’39, who began serving as a College Trustee in 1963 and was the Board Chairman from 1998 to 2003. After stepping down as Chairman, he served as a Trustee Emeritus until his death in 2007.
Since leaving the federal bench in 2004, Cindrich has served as senior vice president and chief legal officer of UPMC. Before taking the bench in 1994, he was a partner in the law firm of Cindrich & Titus and was an active trial practitioner in federal and state court, serving primarily as corporate counsel in commercial litigation. In addition, he represented corporations and white-collar defendants in criminal matters.
His government practice includes serving as assistant public defender, assistant district attorney, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, hearing examiner for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and chair of the Pennsylvania Legislative Reapportionment Commission. He served as judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania until his resignation in 2004 to join UPMC.
Cindrich is a fellow in the American Academy of Trial Lawyers and the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County. He has lectured at various bar and professional associations and was an adjunct professor of law at The University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Duquesne University. Cindrich received his A.B. from Wittenberg University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Ruggero J. Aldisert, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.
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