Alvin Wesley Thompson Jr. (born March 2, 1953)[1] is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Born in 1953 in Baltimore, Maryland, Thompson received a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University in 1975 and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1978.
He was in private practice in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1978 to 1994.
Thompson was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut by President Bill Clinton on September 14, 1994, to a seat vacated by Ellen Bree Burns.
He assumed senior status on August 31, 2018.