Albert William Sheppard Jr. (June 3, 1937 - September 4, 2011) was an American judge in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania’s First Judicial District.
]’”[1][5] As reported by the Committee of Seventy, Sheppard headed a group of 16 judges that issued a report recommending, among other things, administrative reorganizing, monitoring judicial productivity, and innovations in case management procedures and techniques, such as case tracking.
[7] Sheppard was part of the group of judges and lawyers developing this new business court program.
In October 1962, he was stationed on the destroyer USS Furse, which was part of the naval blockade during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
[17] This Fund provides a scholarship supporting a law student's year-long Commerce Court clerkship.