Jerome Simandle, a U.S. district judge in Camden for more than 25 years, died Friday at age 70.

Simandle served as a U.S. magistrate judge from 1983 to 1992, when he was appointed as a District Court judge by President George H.W. Bush. Simandle  was a district judge from 1992 until 2017, and was chief judge of the district from 2012 until 2017. He served as a senior judge from 2017 until his death.