James Knoll Gardner was born on September 14, 1940, in Allentown, Pennsylvania and died on April 26, 2017.

He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Yale University in 1962 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1965.

James Knoll Gardner passed away at 76 years old.