Abdul Karim Kallon is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Kallon earned an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Dartmouth College in 1990. He then earned a Juris Doctor in 1993 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as Articles Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Business Law. Updated July 2017
Abdul Karim Kallon
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
Born in: Sierra Leone
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