Francis Marion Allegra (October 14, 1957 – August 27, 2015) was an American lawyer who served as a judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims.

[2] He graduated from Borromeo College of Ohio in 1978, with a degree in philosophy, and then, in 1981, received his Juris Doctor (magna cum laude) from the Cleveland-Marshall Law School at Cleveland State University.

On October 22, 1998, at the age of forty-one, Allegra was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be a judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims.

[5] Over his judicial career, he has issued more than 250[citation needed] published opinions, on topics including tax, government contracts, intellectual property, takings, and military and civilian employment.

Allegra was an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center,[4] where he taught Litigation with the Federal Government and a seminar on sovereign immunity.