Ira De Ment

Ira De Ment (December 21, 1931 – July 16, 2011) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. Education and military service De Ment was born on December 21, 1931 in Birmingham, Alabama. De Ment attended Phillips High School in Birmingham in 1945 and graduated in 1949. After his graduation, he attended Marion Military Institute as a military student and graduated in 1951. De Ment received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Alabama in 1953 and after graduating from the University of Alabama, De Ment served in the United States Army Infantry in Germany from 1953 to 1955, and in the United States Army Reserve and then the United States Air Force Reserve until 1989. He rose to the rank of major general and was awarded the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal. He previously had received the Legion of Merit. He attended the University of Alabama School of Law and received a Juris Doctor in 1958. Legal career