Congressional Directory for the 108th Congress (2003-2004), November 2003.
[Pages 835-881]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
JUDICIARY
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
One First Street NE 20543, phone 479-3000
WILLIAM HUBBS REHNQUIST, Chief Justice of the United States; born in
Milwaukee, WI, October 1, 1924; son of William Benjamin and Margery Peck
Rehnquist; married to Natalie Cornell of San Diego, CA; children: James,
Janet, and Nancy, member of Faith Lutheran Church, Arlington, VA; served
in the U.S. Army Air Corps in this country and overseas from 1943-46;
discharged with the rank of sergeant; Stanford University, B.A., M.A.,
1948; Harvard University, M.A., 1950; Stanford University, LL.B., 1952,
ranking first in class; Order of the Coif; member of the Board of
Editors of the Stanford Law Review; law clerk for Justice Robert H.
Jackson, Supreme Court of the United States, 1952-53; private practice
of law, Phoenix, AZ, 1953-69; engaged in a general practice of law
with primary emphasis on civil litigation; appointed Assistant Attorney
General, Office of
Legal Counsel, by President Nixon in January 1969; nominated Associate
Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States by President Nixon on October 21,
1971, confirmed
December 10, 1971, sworn in on January 7, 1972; nominated by President
Reagan as Chief Justice of the United States on June 17, 1986; sworn in
on September 26, 1986.
JOHN PAUL STEVENS, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born in Chicago, IL, April 20, 1920; son of Ernest James
and Elizabeth Street Stevens; A.B., University of Chicago, 1941, Phi
Beta Kappa, Psi Upsilon; J.D. (magna cum laude), Northwestern
University, 1947, Order of the Coif, Phi Delta Phi, co-editor, Illinois
Law Review; married to Maryan Mulholland; children: John Joseph, Kathryn
Jedlicka, Elizabeth Jane Sesemann, and Susan Roberta Mullen; entered
active duty U.S. Navy in 1942, released as Lt. Commander in 1945 after
WW II service, Bronz Star; law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Wiley
Rutledge, 1947-48; admitted to Illinois bar, 1949; practiced law in
Chicago, Poppenhusen, Johnston, Thompson and Raymond, 1949-52; associate
counsel,
Subcommittee on the Study of Monopoly Power, Judiciary Committee of the
U.S. House of Representatives, 1951-52; partner, Rothschild, Stevens,
Barry and Myers, Chicago,
1952-70; member of the Attorney General's National Committee to Study
Antitrust Laws, 1953-55; lecturer in Antitrust Law, Northwestern
University School of Law, 1950-54,
and University of Chicago Law School, 1955-58; chief counsel, Illinois
Supreme Court
Special Commission to Investigate Integrity of the Judgment of People v.
Isaacs, 1969;
appointed U.S. Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit, October 14, 1970,
entering on duty
November 2, 1970, and serving until becoming an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court;
nominated to the Supreme Court December 1, 1975, by President Ford;
confirmed by the Senate December 17, 1975; sworn in on December 19,
1975.
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born in El Paso, TX, March 26, 1930; daughter of Harry A.
and Ada Mae Wilkey Day; A.B. (with great distinction), Stanford
University, 1950; LL.B., Stanford Law School, 1952; Order of the Coif,
Board of Editors, Stanford Law Review; married to John Jay O'Connor III,
1952; children: Scott, Brian, and Jay; deputy county attorney, San Mateo
County,
CA, 1952-53; civilian attorney for Quartermaster Market Center,
Frankfurt, Germany,
1954-57; private practice of law in Maryvale, AZ, 1958-60; assistant
attorney general, Arizona, 1965-69; elected to the Arizona State senate,
1969-75; senate majority leader, 1974 and 1975; chairman of the State,
County, and Municipal Affairs Committee in 1972 and 1973; also served on
the Legislative Council, on the Probate Code Commission, and on the
Arizona Advisory Council on Intergovernmental Relations; elected judge
of the Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix, AZ, 1975-79; appointed
to the Arizona Court of Appeals by Gov. Bruce Babbitt, 1979-81;
nominated by President Reagan as Associate Justice of the U.S.
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Supreme Court on July 7, 1981; confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September
22, 1981; and sworn in on September 25, 1981; member, National Board of
Smithsonian Associates, 1981-present; president, board of trustees, The
Heard Museum, 1968-74, 1976-81; member: Salvation Army Advisory Board,
1975-81, board of trustees, Stanford University, 1976-81, Board of
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1988 to present.
ANTONIN SCALIA, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States; born in Trenton, NJ, March 11, 1936; LL.B., Harvard Law School,
1960; note editor, Harvard Law Review; Sheldon fellow, Harvard
University, 1960-61; married to Maureen McCarthy, September 10, 1960;
children: Ann Forrest; Eugene, John Francis, Catherine Elisabeth, Mary
Clare, Paul David, Matthew, Christopher James, and Margaret Jane;
admitted to practice in Ohio (1962) and Virginia (1970); in private
practice with Jones, Day, Cockley, and Reavis (Cleveland, OH), 1961-67;
professor of law, University of Virginia Law School, 1967-74 (on leave
1971-74); general counsel, Office of Telecommunications Policy,
Executive
Office of the President, 1971-72; chairman, Administrative Conference of
the United States, 1972-74; Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal
Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, 1974-77; scholar in residence,
American Enterprise Institute, 1977; professor of law, University of
Chicago, 1977-82; appointed by President Reagan as Circuit Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; sworn in on
August 17, 1982; appointed by President Reagan as Associate Justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court; sworn in on
September 26, 1986.
ANTHONY M. KENNEDY, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born in Sacramento, CA, July 23, 1936; son of Anthony
James and Gladys McLeod Kennedy; married to Mary Davis, June 29, 1963;
children: Justin Anthony, Gregory Davis, and Kristin Marie; Stanford
University, 1954-57; London School of Economics, 1957-58; B.A., Stanford
University, 1958; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1961; associate, Thelen,
Marrin, Johnson and Bridges, San Francisco, 1961-63; sole practitioner,
Sacramento, 1963-67; partner, Evans, Jackson and Kennedy, Sacramento,
1967-75; professor of constitutional law, McGeorge School of Law,
University of the Pacific, 1965-88; California Army National Guard,
1961; member: the Judicial Conference of the United States' Advisory
Panel on Financial Disclosure Reports and Judicial Activities
(subsequently renamed the Advisory Committee of Codes of Conduct), 1979-
87; Committee on Pacific Territories, 1979-90 (chairman, 1982-90); board
of the Federal Judicial Center, 1987-88; nominated by President Ford to
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; sworn in on May 30, 1975;
nominated by President Reagan as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court; sworn in on February 18, 1988.
DAVID HACKETT SOUTER, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born in Melrose, MA, September 17, 1939; son of Joseph
Alexander and Helen Adams Hackett Souter; Harvard College, A.B., 1961,
Phi Beta Kappa, selected Rhodes Scholar; Magdalen College, Oxford, 1963,
A.B. in Jurisprudence, 1989, M.A., 1989; Harvard Law School, LL.B.,
1966; associate, Orr and Reno, Concord, NH, 1966-68; assistant attorney
general of New Hampshire, 1968-71; Deputy Attorney General of New
Hampshire,
1971-76; Attorney General of New Hampshire, 1976-78; Associate Justice,
New Hampshire Superior Court, 1978-83; Associate Justice, New Hampshire
Supreme Court, 1983-90; member: Maine-New Hampshire Interstate Boundary
Commission, 1971-75; New Hampshire Police Standards and Training
Council, 1976-78; New Hampshire Governor's Commission on Crime and
Delinquency, 1976-78; 1979-83; New Hampshire Judicial Council, 1976-78;
Concord Hospital Board of Trustees, 1972-85 (president, 1978-84); New
Hampshire Historical Society, 1968-present, (vice-president, 1980-85,
trustee, 1976-85); Dartmouth Medical School, Board of Overseers, 1981-
87; Merrimack County Bar Association, 1966-present; New Hampshire Bar
Association, 1966-present; Honorary Fellow, American Bar Foundation;
Honorary Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; Honorary Master of
the Bench, Gray's Inn, London; Honorary Fellow, Magdalen College,
Oxford; Associate, Lowell House, Harvard College; nominated by President
Bush to U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit; took oath May 25,
1990; nominated by President Bush as Associate Justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court; took oath of office October 9, 1990.
CLARENCE THOMAS, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born in Pin Point, GA (near Savannah), June 23, 1948; son
of M.C. and Leola Thomas; raised by his grandparents, Myers and
Christine Anderson; married to Virginia Lamp,
May 30, 1987; son Jamal Adeen by previous marriage; attended Conception
Seminary,
1967-68; A.B. (cum laude), Holy Cross College, 1971; J.D., Yale Law
School, 1974; admitted to practice in Missouri, 1974; assistant attorney
general of Missouri, 1974-77; attorney in the law department of Monsanto
Company, 1977-79; legislative assistant to Senator John Danforth, 1979-
81; Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education,
1981-82; chairman, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1982-
90; nominated
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by President Bush to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit;
took oath March 12, 1990; nominated by President Bush as Associate
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; took the constitutional oath on
October 18, 1991 and the judicial oath on October 23, 1991.
RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born March 15, 1933, Brooklyn, N.Y., the daughter of
Nathan and Celia Amster Bader; married Martin Ginsburg, 1954; two
children: Jane C. and James S.; B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, Cornell
University, 1954; attended Harvard Law School, 1956-58; LL.B., Columbia
Law School, 1959; law clerk to Edmund L. Palmieri, U.S. District Court,
Southern District of New York, 1959-61; Columbia Law School Project on
International Procedure, 1961-62, associate director, 1962-63;
professor, Rutgers University School of Law, 1963-72; professor,
Columbia Law School, 1972-80; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in
Behavioral Sciences, 1977-78; American Civil Liberties Union, general
counsel, 1973-80; National Board of Directors, 1974-80; Women's Rights
Project, founder and Counsel, 1972-80; American Bar Foundation Board of
Directors, executive committee, secretary, 1979-89; American Bar
Association Board of Editors, 1972-78; ABA Section on Individual Rights
and Responsibilities, council member, 1975-81; American Law Institute,
council member, 1978-93; American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow,
1982-present; Council on Foreign Relations, 1975-present; nominated by
President Carter as a Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit, sworn in on June 30, 1980; nominated Associate Justice
by President Clinton,
June 14, 1993, confirmed by the Senate, August 3, 1993, and sworn in
August 10, 1993.
STEPHEN G. BREYER, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States; born in San Francisco, CA, August 15, 1938; son of Irving
G. and Anne R. Breyer;
married Joanna Hare, 1967, three children: Chloe, Nell, and Michael;
A.B., Stanford University, 1959; B.A., Oxford University, Magdalen
College, Marshall Scholar, 1961; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1964; law
clerk to Associate Justice Arthur J. Goldberg of the Supreme Court of
the United States, 1964-65; special assistant to the Assistant Attorney
General (Antitrust), Department of Justice, 1965-67; Assistant Special
Prosecutor of the Watergate Special
Prosecution Force, 1973; Special Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary
Committee,
Subcommittee on Administrative Practices, 1974-75; Chief Counsel of the
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, 1979-80; Professor of Law, Harvard Law
School, 1970-80; (assistant professor, 1967-70; lecturer, 1980-94);
professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University, 1977-80; Nominated by President Carter as a Judge, U.S.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, sworn in on December 10, 1980;
Chief Judge, 1990-94; member, U.S. Sentencing Commission, 1985-89;
member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1990-94; nominated
Associate Justice by President Clinton May 13, 1994, confirmed by the
Senate July 29, 1994, and sworn in on August 3, 1994.
Officers of the Supreme Court
Clerk.--William K. Suter.
Librarian.--Judith Gaskell.
Marshal.--Pamela Talkin.
Reporter of Decisions.--Frank D. Wagner.
Counsel.--Scott Harris.
Curator.--Catherine Fitts.
Budget and Personnel Officer.--Cyril A. Donnelly.
Public Information Officer.--Kathleen L. Arberg.
Director of Data Systems.--Donna Clement.
Administrative Assistant to the Chief Justice.--Sally M. Rider.
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UNITED STATES COURTS OF APPEALS
First Judicial Circuit (Districts of Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, Puerto Rico, and Rhode Island).--Chief Judge: Michael
Boudin. Circuit Judges: Juan R. Torruella; Bruce M. Selya; Sandra L.
Lynch; Kermit V. Lipez; Jeffrey R. Howard. Senior Circuit Judges:
Frank M. Coffin; Levin H. Campbell; Hugh H. Bownes; Conrad K. Cyr;
Norman H. Stahl. Circuit Executive: Gary H. Wente, (617) 748-9613.
Clerk: Richard C. Donovan, (617) 748-9057, John Joseph Moakley U.S.
Courthouse, One Courthouse Way, Suite 2500, Boston, MA 02210.
Second Judicial Circuit (Districts of Connecticut, New York, and
Vermont).--Chief Judge: John M. Walker, Jr. Circuit Judges: Dennis
Jacobs; Guido Calabresi; Jose A. Cabranes; Fred I. Parker; Rosemary
S. Pooler; Chester J. Straub; Robert D. Sack; Sonia Sotomayor;
Robert Allen Katzmann; Barrington D. Parker, Jr.; Reena Raggi.
Senior Circuit Judges: Wilfred Feinberg; James L. Oakes; Ellsworth
A. Van Graafeiland; Thomas J. Meskill; Jon O. Newman; Richard J.
Cardamone; Ralph K. Winter; Roger J. Miner; Joseph M. McLaughlin;
Amalya L. Kearse; Pierre N. Leval. Circuit Executive: Karen Greve
Milton, (212) 857-8700. Clerk: Roseann B. MacKechnie, (212) 857-
8500, U.S. Courthouse, 40 Foley Square, New York, NY 10007-1581.
Third Judicial Circuit (Districts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
and Virgin Islands).--Chief Judge: Anthony J. Scirica. Circuit
Judges: Dolores K. Sloviter; Richard L. Nygaard; Samuel H. Alito,
Jr.; Jane R. Roth; Theodore A. McKee; Marjorie O. Rendell; Maryanne
Trump Barry; Thomas L. Ambro; Julio M. Fuentes; D. Brooks Smith;
Michael Chertoff. Senior Circuit Judges: Ruggero J. Aldisert; Max
Rosenn; Joseph F. Weis, Jr.; Leonard I. Garth; Edward R. Becker;
Walter K Stapleton; Morton I. Greenberg; Robert E. Cowen. Circuit
Executive: Toby D. Slawsky, (215) 597-0718. Clerk: Marcia M.
Waldron, (215) 597-2995, U.S. Courthouse, 601 Market Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19106.
Fourth Judicial Circuit (Districts of Maryland, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia).--Chief Judge: William W.
Wilkin. Circuit Judges: H. Emory Widener, Jr.; Paul V. Niemeyer; J.
Harvie Wilkinson III; J. Michael Luttig; Karen J. Williams; M. Blane
Michael; Diana Gribbon Motz; William B. Traxler, Jr.; Robert B.
King; Roger L. Gregory; Dennis W. Shedd. Senior Circuit Judges:
Clyde H. Hamilton. Circuit Executive: Samuel W. Phillips, (804) 916-
2184. Clerk: Patricia S. Connor, (804) 916-2700, Lewis F. Powell,
Jr., U.S. Courthouse Annex, 1100 E. Main Street, Richmond, VA 23219.
Fifth Judicial Circuit (Districts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and
Texas).--Chief Judge: Carolyn Dineen King. Circuit Judges: E. Grady
Jolly; Patrick E. Higginbotham; W. Eugene Davis; Edith H. Jones;
Jerry E. Smith; Jacques L. Wiener, Jr.; Rhesa H. Barksdale; Emilio
M. Garza; Harold R. DeMoss, Jr.; Fortunato P. Benavides; Carl E.
Stewart; James L. Dennis; Edith Brown Clement. Senior Circuit
Judges: Reynaldo G. Garza; Thomas M. Reavley; Will Garwood; John M.
Duhe, Jr. Circuit Executive: Gregory A. Nussel, (504) 310-7777.
Clerk: Charles R. Fulbruge III, (504) 310-7700, John Minor Wisdom,
U.S. Court of Appeals Building, 600 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA
70130-3425.
Sixth Judicial Circuit (Districts of Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and
Tennessee).--Chief Judge: Boyce F. Martin, Jr. Circuit Judges: Danny
J. Boggs; Alice M. Batchelder; Martha Craig Daughtrey; Karen Nelson
Moore; R. Guy Cole, Jr.; Eric Lee Clay; Ronald Lee Gilman; Julie
Smith Gibbons; John M. Rogers. Senior Circuit Judges: Albert J.
Engel; Damon J. Keith; Cornelia G. Kennedy; Nathaniel R. Jones;
Robert B. Krupansky; Harry W. Wellford; Ralph B. Guy, Jr.; David A.
Nelson; James L. Ryan; Gilbert S. Merritt; Alan E. Norris; Richard
F. Suhrheinrich; Eugene E. Siler, Jr. Circuit Executive: James A.
Higgins, (513) 564-7200. Clerk: Leonard Green, (513) 564-7000,
Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse, 100 E. Fifth Street, Cincinnati, OH
45202.
Seventh Judicial Circuit (Districts of Illinois, Indiana, and
Wisconsin).--Chief Judge: Joel M. Flaum. Circuit Judges: Richard A.
Posner; John L. Coffey; Frank H. Easterbrook; Kenneth F. Ripple;
Daniel A. Manion; Michael S. Kanne; Ilana Diamond Rovner; Diane P.
Wood; Terence T. Evans; Ann Claire Williams. Senior Circuit Judges:
Thomas E.
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Fairchild; William J. Bauer; Richard D. Cudahy; Harlington Wood.
Circuit Executive: Collins T. Fitzpatrick, (312) 435-5803. Clerk:
Gino J. Agnello, (312) 435-5850, 2722 U.S.
Courthouse, 219 S. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60604.
Eighth Judicial Circuit (Districts of Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota).--Chief Judge:
James B. Loken. Circuit Judges: Theodore McMillian; Pasco M. Bowman
II; Roger L. Wollman; Morris S. Arnold; Diana E. Murphy; Kermit E.
Bye; William Jay Riley; Michael J. Melloy; Lavenski R. Smith. Senior
Circuit Judges: Donald P. Lay; Gerald W. Heaney; Myron H. Bright;
Richard S. Arnold; John R. Gibson; George G. Fagg; Frank J. Magill;
C. Arlen Beam; David R. Hansen. Circuit Executive: Millie Adams,
(314) 244-2600. Clerk: Michael E. Gans, (314) 244-2400, 111 S. Tenth
Street, Suite 24.327, St. Louis, MO 63102.
Ninth Judicial Circuit (Districts of Alaska, Arizona, Central
California, Eastern California, Northern California, Southern
California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Northern Mariana
Islands, Oregon, Eastern Washington and Western Washington).--Chief
Judge: Mary M. Schroeder. Circuit Judges: Harry Pregerson; Stephen
Reinhardt; Alex Kozinski; Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain; Stephen S. Trott;
Pamela Ann Rymer; Thomas G. Nelson; Andrew J. Kleinfeld; Michael
Daly Hawkins; A. Wallace Tashima; Sidney R. Thomas; Barry G.
Silverman; Susan P. Graber; M. Margaret McKeown; Kim McLane Wardlaw;
William A. Fletcher; Raymond C. Fisher; Ronald M. Gould; Richard A.
Paez; Marsha S. Berzon; Richard C. Tallman; Johnnie B. Rawlinson;
Richard R. Clifton; Jay S. Bybee. Senior Circuit Judges: James R.
Browning; Herbert Y.C. Choy; Alfred T. Goodwin; J. Clifford Wallace;
Joseph Tyree Sneed III; Procter Hug, Jr.; Otto R. Skopil, Jr.; Betty
Binns Fletcher; Jerome Farris; Authur L. Alarcon; Warren J.
Ferguson; Dorothy W. Nelson; William C. Canby, Jr.; Robert
Boochever; Robert R. Beezer; Cynthia Holcomb Hall; Melvin Brunetti;
John T. Noonan, Jr.; David R. Thompson; Edward Leavy; Ferdinand F.
Fernandez.
Circuit Executive: Gregory B. Walters, (415) 556-6162. Clerk: Cathy
A. Catterson, (415) 556-9890, P.O. Box 193939, San Francisco, CA
94119-3939.
Tenth Judicial Circuit (Districts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming).--Chief Judge: Deanell R. Tacha.
Circuit Judges: Stephanie K. Seymour; David M. Ebel; Paul J. Kelly,
Jr.; Robert H. Henry; Mary Beck Briscoe; Carlos F. Lucero; Michael
R. Murphy; Harris L. Hartz; Terrence L. O'Brien; Michael W.
McConnell; Timothy Tymkovich. Senior Circuit Judges: William J.
Holloway, Jr.; Robert H. McWilliams; James E. Barrett; Monroe G.
McKay; John C. Porfilio; Stephen H. Anderson; Bobby R. Baldock; Wade
Brorby. Circuit Executive: Elisabeth Shumaker, (303) 844-2067.
Clerk: Patrick J. Fisher, (303) 844-3157, Byron White Courthouse,
1823 Stout Street, Denver, CO 80257.
Eleventh Judicial Circuit (Districts of Alabama, Florida, and
Georgia).--Chief Judge: J.L. Edmondson. Circuit Judges: Gerald Bard
Tjoflat; R. Lanier Anderson III; Stanley F. Birch, Jr.; Joel F.
Dubina; Susan Harrell Black; Edward E. Carnes; Rosemary Barkett;
Frank Mays Hull; Stanley Marcus; Charles Reginald Wilson. Senior
Circuit Judges: John C. Godbold; Paul H. Roney; James C. Hill; Peter
T. Fay; Phyllis A. Kravitch; Emmett Ripley Cox. Circuit Executive:
Norman E. Zoller, (404) 335-6535. Clerk: Thomas K. Kahn, (404) 335-
6100, 56 Forsyth Street NW., Atlanta, GA 30303.
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
333 Constitution Avenue 20001, phone 216-7300
DOUGLAS HOWARD GINSBURG, chief judge; born in Chicago, IL, May 25,
1946; son of Maurice and Katherine (Goodmont) Ginsburg; married to
Claudia DeSecundy,
May 31, 1968 (divorced); one child, Jessica J.E. Lubow; married to
Hallee Perkins Morgan, May 9, 1981; children, Hallee Katherine Morgan
and Hannah Maurice Morgan; education: diploma, Latin School of Chicago,
1963; B.S., Cornell University, 1970 (Phi Kappa Phi, Ives Award); J.D.,
University of Chicago, 1973 (Mecham Prize Scholarship 1970-73, Casper
Platt Award, 1972, Order of Coif, Articles and Book Rev. Ed., 40 U. Chi.
L. Rev.); bar admissions: Illinois (1973), Massachusetts (1982), U.S.
Supreme Court (1984), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
(1986). Member: Mont Pelerin Society, American Economic Association,
Executive Council of Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association
(ex officio, 1985-86 and 2000-03); law clerk to: Judge Carl McGowan,
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1973-74;
Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court, 1974-75;
previous positions: assistant professor, Harvard University Law School,
1975-81; Professor 1981-83; Deputy Assistant Attorney General for
Regulatory Affairs, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice,
1983-84; Administrator for Information and Regulatory Affairs, Executive
Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, 1984-85;
Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of
Justice,
1985-86; visiting professor of law, Columbia University, New York City,
1987-88; lecturer in law, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1987-90;
foundation professor of law, George Mason University, Arlington, VA,
1988-; Charles J. Merriam visiting scholar, senior lecturer, University
of Chicago Law School, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2000. Appointed
to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by
President Ronald Reagan on October 14, 1986, taking the oath of office
on November 10, 1986.
HARRY T. EDWARDS, circuit judge; born in New York, NY, November 3,
1940; son of George H. Edwards and Arline (Ross) Lyle; B.S., Cornell
University, 1962; J.D. (with distinction), University of Michigan Law
School, 1965; associate with Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather and Geraldson,
1965-70; professor of law, University of Michigan, 1970-75 and 1977-80;
professor of law, Harvard University, 1975-77; visiting professor of
law, Free University of Brussels, 1974; arbitrator of labor / management
disputes, 1970-80; vice president, National Academy of Arbitrators,
1978-80; member (1977-79) and chairman (1979-80), National Railroad
Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); Executive Committee of the Association
of American Law Schools, 1979-80; public member of the Administrative
Conference of the United States, 1976-80; International Women's Year
Commission, 1976-77; American Bar Association Commission of Law and the
Economy; coauthor of four books: Labor Relations Law in the Public
Sector, The Lawyer as a Negotiator, Higher Education and the Law, and
Collective Bargaining and Labor Arbitration; recipient of the Judge
William B. Groat Alumni Award, 1978, given by Cornell University; the
Society of American Law Teachers Award (for ``distinguished
contributions to teaching and public service''); the Whitney North
Seymour Medal presented by the American Arbitration Association for
outstanding contributions to the use of arbitration; and several
Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees. Judge Edwards teaches law on a part-
time basis; he has recently taught at Duke, Georgetown, Michigan, and
Harvard Law Schools, and he is presently teaching a course in Federal
Courts at N.Y.U.; A.B.A.; married to Pamela Carrington Edwards;
children: Brent and Michelle; appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals,
February 20, 1980; served as chief judge September 15, 1994 to July 16,
2000; office: 5400 U.S. Courthouse, Washington, DC 20001.
DAVID BRYAN SENTELLE, circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals (District
of Columbia Circuit); 273-0348; born in Canton, NC, February 12, 1943;
son of Horace and Maude Sentelle; B.A., University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, 1965; J.D. with honors, Uni-
versity of North Carolina School of Law, 1968; associate, Uzzell and
Dumont, Charlotte,
1968-79; Assistant U.S. Attorney, Charlotte, 1970-74; North Carolina
State District Judge,
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1974-77; partner, Tucker, Hicks, Sentelle, Moon and Hodge, Charlotte,
1977-85; U.S. District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina,
1985-87; married to Jane LaRue Oldham; daughters: Sharon, Reagan, and
Rebecca.
KAREN LeCRAFT HENDERSON, circuit judge. [Biographical information
not supplied, per Judge Henderson's request.]
A. RAYMOND RANDOLPH, circuit judge; born in Riverside, NJ, November
1, 1943; son of Arthur Raymond Randolph, Sr. and Marile (Kelly); two
children: John Trevor and Cynthia Lee Randolph; married to Eileen
Janette O'Connor, May 18, 1984. B.S., Drexel University, 1966; J.D.,
University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1969, summa cum laude; managing
editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review; Order of the Coif.
Admitted to Supreme Court of the United States; Supreme Court of
California; District of Columbia Court of Appeals; U.S. Courts of
Appeals for the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth,
Eleventh, and District of Columbia Circuits. Memberships: American Law
Institute. Law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly, U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit,
1969-70; Assistant to the Solicitor General, 1970-73; adjunct professor
of law, Georgetown University Law Center, 1974-78; George Mason School
of Law, 1992; Deputy Solicitor General, 1975-77; Special Counsel,
Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, House of Representatives,
1979-80; special assistant attorney general, State of Montana
(honorary), 1983-July 1990; special assistant attorney general, State of
New Mexico, 1985-July 1990; special assistant attorney general, State of
Utah, 1986-July 1990; advisory panel, Federal Courts Study Committee,
1989-July 1990; partner, Pepper, Hamilton and Scheetz,
1987-July 1990; appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia Circuit by President George W. Bush on July 16, 1990, and
took oath of office on July 20, 1990; chairman, Committee on Codes of
Conduct, U.S. Judicial Conference, 1995-98; distinguished professor of
law, George Mason Law School, 1999-present; recipient, Distinguished
Alumnus Award, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2002.
JUDITH W. ROGERS, circuit judge; born in New York, NY; A.B. (with
honors), Radcliffe College, 1961; Phi Beta Kappa honors member; LL.B.,
Harvard Law School, 1964; LL.M., University of Virginia School of Law,
1988; law clerk, D.C. Juvenile Court, 1964-65; assistant U.S. Attorney
for the District of Columbia, 1965-68; trial attorney, San Francisco
Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, 1968-69; Attorney, U.S.
Department of Justice, Office of the Associate Deputy Attorney General
and Criminal Division, 1969-71; general counsel, Congressional
Commission on the Organization of the D.C. Government, 1971-72;
legislative assistant to D.C. Mayor Walter E. Washington, 1972-79;
corporation counsel for the District of Columbia, 1979-83; trustee,
Radcliffe College, 1982-90; member of Visiting Committee to Harvard Law
School, 1984-90. Appointed by President Ronald W. Reagan to the District
of Columbia Court of Appeals as an Associate Judge on September 15,
1983; served as chief judge, November 1, 1988 to March 18, 1994; member
of Executive Committee, Conference of Chief Justices, 1993-94. Appointed
by President William Jefferson Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia Circuit on March 11, 1994, and entered on duty
March 21, 1994.
DAVID S. TATEL, circuit judge; born in Washington, DC, March 16,
1942; son of Molly and Dr. Howard Tatel; B.A., University of Michigan,
1963; J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1966; instructor,
University of Michigan Law School, 1966-67; associate, Sidley and
Austin, 1967-69, 1970-72; director, Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil
Rights
Under Law, 1969-70; director, National Lawyers' Committee for Civil
Rights Under Law, 1972-74; director, Office for Civil Rights, U.S.
Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1977-79; associate and
partner, Hogan and Hartson, 1974-77, 1979-94; lecturer, Stanford
University Law School, 1991-92; board of directors, Spencer Foundation,
1987-97 (chair, 1990-97); board of directors, National Board for
Professional Teaching Standards, 1997-2000; National Lawyers' Committee
for Civil Rights Under Law, co-chair, 1989-91; Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teachings, Board Member, current; admitted to
practice law in Illinois in 1966 and the District Columbia in 1970;
married to the former Edith Bassichis, 1965; children: Rebecca,
Stephanie, Joshua, and Emily; appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia Circuit by President William Jefferson Clinton
on October 7, 1994, and entered on duty October 11, 1994.
MERRICK BRIAN GARLAND, circuit judge; born in Chicago, IL, November
13, 1952; A.B., Harvard University, 1974, summa cum laude, phi beta
kappa; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1977, magna cum laude, articles editor,
Harvard Law Review; law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 2d Circuit, 1977-78; law clerk to Justice William J.
Brennan, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court, 1978-79; Special Assistant to the
Attorney General, 1979-81; associate then partner, Arnold and Porter,
Washington, D.C., 1981-89; Assistant
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U.S. Attorney, Washington, D.C., 1989-92; partner, Arnold and Porter,
1992-93; Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S.
Department of Justice, 1993-94; Principal Associate Deputy Attorney
General, 1994-97; Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School,
1985-86; Associate Independent Counsel, 1987-88. Admitted to the bars of
the District of Columbia; U.S. District Court; Court of Appeals,
District of Columbia Circuit; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 4th, 9th,
and 10th Circuits; and U.S. Supreme Court. Author: Antitrust and State
Action, 96 Yale Law Journal 486 (1987); Antitrust and Federalism, 96
Yale Law Journal 1291 (1987); Deregulation and Judicial Review, 98
Harvard Law Review 505 (1985). Co-Chair, Administrative Law Section,
District of Columbia Bar, 1991-94; member, American Law Institute.
Appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit on March 20, 1997.
SENIOR JUDGES
LAURENCE HIRSCH SILBERMAN, circuit judge; born in York, PA, on
October 12, 1935; son of William Silberman and Anna (Hirsch); married to
Rosalie G. Gaull on April 28, 1957; children: Robert Stephen Silberman,
Katherine DeBoer Balaban, and Anne Gaull Otis; B.A., Dartmouth College,
1957; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1961. Admitted to Hawaii bar, 1962;
District of Columbia bar, 1973; associate, Moore, Torkildson and Rice,
1961-64; partner (Moore, Silberman and Schulze), Honolulu, 1964-67;
attorney, National Labor Relations Board, Office of General Counsel,
Appellate Division, 1967-69; Solicitor, Department of Labor, 1969-70;
Under Secretary of Labor, 1970-73; partner, Steptoe and Johnson, 1973-
74; Deputy Attorney General of the United States, 1974-75; Ambassador to
Yugoslavia, 1975-77; President's Special Envoy on ILO Affairs, 1976;
senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute, 1977-78; visiting fellow,
1978-85; managing partner, Morrison and Foerster, 1978-79 and 1983-85;
executive vice president, Crocker National Bank,
1979-83; lecturer, University of Hawaii, 1962-63; board of directors,
Commission on Present Danger, 1978-85, Institute for Educational
Affairs, New York, NY, 1981-85, member: General Advisory Committee on
Arms Control and Disarmament, 1981-85; Defense Policy Board, 1981-85;
vice chairman, State Department's Commission on Security and Economic
Assistance, 1983-84; American Bar Association (Labor Law Committee,
1965-72, Corporations and Banking Committee, 1973, Law and National
Security Advisory Committee, 1981-85); Hawaii Bar Association Ethics
Committee, 1965-67; Council on Foreign Relations, 1977-present; Judicial
Conference Committee on Court Administration and Case Management, 1994;
Adjunct Professor of Law (Administrative Law) Georgetown Law Center,
1987-94; 1997, 1999-present; Adjunct Professor of Law (Labor Law),
Georgetown Law Center, 2002-present; Adjunct Professor of Law
(Administrative Law) New York University Law School, 1995-96; appointed
to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by
President Ronald Reagan on October 28, 1985.
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, circuit judge; born in New York, NY, September
23, 1936, son of Charles Dickerman Williams and Virginia (Fain); B.A.,
Yale, 1958, J.D., Harvard Law School, 1961. U.S. Army reserves, 1961-62;
associate, Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons and Gates, 1962-66; Assistant U.S.
Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1966-69; associate professor
and professor of law, University of Colorado School of Law, 1969-86;
visiting professor of law, UCLA, 1975-76; visiting professor of law and
fellow in law and economics, University Chicago Law School, 1979-80;
visiting George W. Hutchison Professor of Energy Law, SMU, 1983-84;
consultant to: Administrative Conference of the United States,
1974-76; Federal Trade Commission on energy-related issues, 1983-85;
appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit by President Ronald Reagan, June 16, 1986; member, American Law
Institute; married to Faith Morrow, 1966; children: Susan, Geoffrey,
Sarah, Timothy, and Nicholas.
Officers of the United States Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit
Circuit Executive.--Jill C. Sayenga.
Clerk.--Mark J. Langer.
Chief Deputy Clerk.--Marilyn R. Sargent.
Chief, Legal Division.--Martha Tomich.
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FEDERAL CIRCUIT
717 Madison Place 20439, phone 633-6550
HALDANE ROBERT MAYER, chief judge; born in Buffalo, NY, February 21,
1941; son of Haldane and Myrtle Mayer; educated in the public schools of
Lockport, NY; B.S., U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, 1963; and
J.D., Marshall-Wythe School of Law, The College of William and Mary in
Virginia, 1971; editor-in-chief, William and Mary Law Review, Omicron
Delta Kappa; admitted to practice in Virginia and the District of
Columbia; board of directors, William and Mary Law School Association,
1979-85; served in the U.S. Army, 1963-75, in the Infantry and the Judge
Advocate General's Corps; awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious
Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Combat
Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge, Ranger Tab, Ranger Combat Badge,
Campaign and Service Ribbons; resigned from Regular Army and was
commissioned in the U.S. Army Reserve, currently Lieutenant Colonel,
retired; law clerk for Judge John D. Butzner, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit, 1971-72; private practice with McGuire, Woods
and Battle in Charlottesville, VA, 1975-77; adjunct professor,
University of Virginia School of Law, 1975-77, 1992-94, George
Washington University National Law Center, 1992-96; Special Assistant to
the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren E. Burger, 1977-80;
private practice with Baker and McKenzie in Washington, DC,
1980-81; Deputy and Acting Special Counsel (by designation of the
President), U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, 1981-82; appointed by
President Reagan to the U.S. Claims Court, 1982; appointed by President
Reagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, June 15,
1987; assumed duties of the office, June 19, 1987; assumed position of
Chief Judge on December 25, 1997; Judicial Conference of the U.S.
Committee on the International Appellate Judges Conference, 1988-91,
Committee on Judicial Resources, 1990-97; member of the Judicial
Conference of the United States, 1997-present; married Mary Anne
McCurdy, August 13, 1966; two daughters, Anne Christian and Rebecca
Paige.
PAULINE NEWMAN, circuit judge; born June 20, 1927, in New York, NY;
daughter of Maxwell H. and Rosella G. Newman; B.A. degree from Vassar
College in 1947; M.A. in pure science from Columbia University in 1948;
Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Yale University in 1952; LL.B. degree
from New York University School of Law in 1958; Doctor of Laws
(honorary) from Franklin Pierce School of Law in 1991; admitted to the
New York bar in 1958 and to the Pennsylvania bar in 1979; worked as
research scientist for the American Cyanamid Co. from 1951-54; worked
for the FMC Corp. from 1954-84 as patent attorney and house counsel and,
since 1969, as director of the Patent, Trademark, and Licensing
Department; on leave from FMC Corp. worked for the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization as a science policy
specialist in the Department of Natural Sciences, 1961-62; offices in
scientific and professional organizations include: member of Council of
the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section of the American Bar
Association, 1982-84; board of directors of the American Patent Law
Association,
1981-84; vice president of the United States Trademark Association,
1978-79, and member of the board of directors, 1975-76, 1977-79; board
of governors of the New York Patent Law Association, 1970-74; president
of the Pacific Industrial Property Association,
1978-80; executive committee of the International Patent and Trademark
Association,
1982-84; board of directors: the American Chemical Society, 1973-75,
1976-78, 1979-81; American Institute of Chemists, 1960-66, 1970-76;
member: board of trustees of Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and
Science, 1983-84; patent policy board of State University of New York,
1983-84; national board of Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1975-84;
board of directors of Research Corp., 1982-84; governmental committees
include: State Department Advisory Committee on International
Intellectual Property, 1974-84; advisory committee to the Domestic
Policy Review of Industrial Innovation, 1978-79; special advisory
committee on Patent Office Procedure and Practice, 1972-74; member of
the U.S. Delegation to the Diplomatic Conference
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on the Revision of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial
Property,
1982-84; awarded Wilbur Cross Medal of Yale University Graduate School,
1989, the Jefferson Medal of the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law
Association, 1988, the Award for Outstanding Contributions in the
Intellectual Property Field of the Pacific Industrial Property
Association, 1987; Vanderbilt Medal of New York University School of
Law, 1995; Vasser College Distinguished Achievement Award, 2002;
Distinguished Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
(adjunct faculty); Council on Foreign Relations; appointed judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Reagan and
entered upon duties of that office on May 7, 1984.
PAUL R. MICHEL, circuit judge; born February 3, 1941, in
Philadelphia, PA; son of Lincoln M. and Dorothy Michel; educated in
public schools in Wayne and Radnor, PA; B.A., Williams College, 1963;
J.D., University of Virginia Law School, 1966; married Sally Ann Clark,
1965 (divorced, 1987); children, Sarah Elizabeth and Margaret Kelley;
married Dr. Elizabeth Morgan, 1989; Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army Reserve
(1966-72); admitted to practice: Pennsylvania (1967), U.S. district
court (1968), U.S. circuit court (1969), and U.S. Supreme Court (1969);
assistant district attorney, Philadelphia, PA (1967-71); Deputy District
Attorney for Investigations (1972-74); Assistant Watergate Special
Prosecutor
(1974-75); assistant counsel, Senate Intelligence Committee (1975-76);
deputy chief, Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division, U.S.
Department of Justice (1976-78); ``Koreagate'' prosecutor (1976-78);
Associate Deputy Attorney General (1978-81); Acting Deputy Attorney
General (Dec. 1979-Feb. 1980); counsel and administrative assistant to
Senator Arlen Specter (1981-88); nominated December 19, 1987 by
President Ronald Reagan to be circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Federal Circuit, confirmed by Senate on February 29, 1988, and
assumed duties of the office on March 8, 1988.
ALAN D. LOURIE, circuit judge; born January 13, 1935, in Boston, MA;
son of Joseph Lourie and Rose; educated in public schools in Brookline,
MA; A.B., Harvard University, (1956); M.S., University of Wisconsin,
(1958); Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, (1965); and J.D., Temple
University, (1970); married to the former L. Elizabeth D. Schwartz;
children, Deborah L. Rapoport and Linda S. Lourie; employed at Monsanto
Company (chemist,
1957-59); Wyeth Laboratories (chemist, literature scientist, patent
liaison specialist,
1959-64); SmithKline Beecham Corporation, (Patent Agent, 1964-70;
assistant director, Corporate Patents, 1970-76; director, Corporate
Patents, 1976-77; vice president, Corporate Patents and Trademarks and
Associate General Counsel, 1977-90); vice chairman of the Industry
Functional Advisory Committee on Intellectual Property Rights for Trade
Policy Matters
(IFAC 3) for the Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative
(1987-90); Treasurer of the Association of Corporate Patent Counsel
(1987-89); President of the Philadelphia Patent Law Association (1984-
85); member of the board of directors of the American Intellectual
Property Law Association (formerly American Patent Law Association)
(1982-85); member of the U.S. delegation to the Diplomatic Conference on
the Revision of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial
Property, October-November 1982, March 1984; chairman of the Patent
Committee of the Law Section of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers
Association (1980-85); member of Judicial Conference Committee on
Financial Disclosure, 1990-98; member of the American Bar Association,
the American Chemical Society, the Cosmos Club, and the Harvard Club of
Washington; recipient of Jefferson Medal of the New Jersey Intellectual
Property Law Association for outstanding contributions to intellectual
property law, 1998; admitted to: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court; nominated January 25, 1990, by President
George Bush to be circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit, confirmed by Senate on April 5, 1990, and assumed
duties of the office on April 11, 1990.
RAYMOND C. CLEVENGER, III, circuit judge; born August 27, 1937, in
Topeka, KS; son of R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger; educated in
the public schools in Topeka, Kansas, and at Phillips Academy, Andover,
MA; B.A., Yale University, 1959; LL.B., Yale University, 1966; law clerk
to Justice White, October term, 1966; practice of law at Wilmer, Cutler
and Pickering, Washington, DC, 1967-90. Nominated by President George
Bush on January 24, 1990, confirmed on April 27, 1990 and assumed duties
on May 3, 1990.
RANDALL R. RADER, circuit judge; born April 21, 1949 in Hastings,
NE, son of Raymond A. and Gloria R. Rader; higher education: B.A.,
Brigham Young University, 1971-74, (magna cum laude), Phi Beta Kappa;
J.D., George Washington University Law Center, 1974-78; married the
former Victoria Semenyuk: legislative assistant to Representative
Virginia Smith; 1978-81: legislative director, counsel, House Committee
on Ways and Means to Representative
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Philip M. Crane; 1981-86: General Counsel, Chief Counsel, Subcommittee
on the Constitution; 1987-88, Minority Chief Counsel, Staff Director,
Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights, Senate Committee on
Judiciary; 1988-90: Judge, U.S. Claims Court; 1990-present, Circuit
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, nominated by
President George Bush on June 12, 1990; confirmed by Senate August 3,
1990, sworn in August 14, 1990, recipient: Outstanding Young Federal
Lawyer Award by Federal Bar Association, 1983; recipient: Jefferson
Medal Award 2003; bar member: District of Columbia, 1978, Supreme Court
of the United States, 1984, U.S. Claims Court, 1988, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1990.
ALVIN A. SCHALL, circuit judge; born April 4, 1944, in New York
City, NY; son of Gordon W. Schall and Helen D. Schall; preparatory
education: St. Paul's School, Concord, NH, 1956-62, graduated cum laude;
higher education: B.A., Princeton University,
1962-66; J.D., Tulane Law School, 1966-69; married to the former Sharon
Frances LeBlanc, children: Amanda and Anthony. 1969-73: associate with
the law firm of Shearman and Sterling in New York City; 1973-78:
Assistant United States Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney
for the Eastern District of New York; Chief of the Appeals Division,
1977-78; 1978-87: Trial Attorney, Senior Trial Counsel, Civil Division,
United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC; 1987-88: member of
the Washington, DC law firm of Perlman and Partners; 1988-92: Assistant
to the Attorney General of the United States; 1992-Present: Circuit
Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, appointed
by President George Bush on August 17, 1992, sworn in on August 19,
1992. Author: ``Federal Contract Disputes and Forums,'' Chapter 9 in
Construction Litigation: Strategies and Techniques, published by John
Wiley and Sons (Wiley Law Publications), 1989. Bar memberships: State of
New York (1970), District of Columbia (1980), Supreme Court of the
United States (1989), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
(1974), U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of
New York (1973), U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit (1991), United States District Court for the District of
Columbia (1991), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1982),
and U.S. Court of Federal Claims, formerly the U.S. Claims Court (1978).
WILLIAM CURTIS BRYSON, circuit judge; born August 19, 1945, in
Houston, TX; A.B., Harvard University, 1969; J.D., University of Texas
School of Law, 1973; married with two children; law clerk to Hon. Henry
J. Friendly, circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
(1973-74), and Hon. Thurgood Marshall, associate justice, U.S. Supreme
Court (1974-75); associate, Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin,
Washington, DC
(1975-78); Department of Justice, Criminal Division (1979-86), Office of
Solicitor General (1978-79, 1986-94), and Office of the Associate
Attorney General (1994); nominated in June 1994 by President Clinton to
be circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and
assumed duties of the office on October 7, 1994.
ARTHUR J. GAJARSA, circuit judge; born March 1, 1941 in Norcia (Pro.
Perugia), Italy; married to Melanie Gajarsa; five children; education:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1958-62, B.S.E.E., Bausch
and Lomb Medal, 1958, Benjamin Franklin Award, 1958; Catholic University
of America, Washington, DC, 1968; M.A. in economics, graduate studies;
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, 1967; career
record:
1962-63, patent examiner, U.S. Patent Office, Department of Commerce;
1963-64, patent Adviser, U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense; 1964-67,
patent adviser, Cushman, Darby and Cushman; 1967-68, law clerk to Judge
Joseph McGarraghy, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,
Washington, DC; 1968-69, attorney, Office of General Counsel, Aetna Life
and Casualty Co.; 1969-71, special counsel and assistant to the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of
Interior; 1971-72, associate, Duncan and Brown; 1972-78, partner,
Gajarsa, Liss and Sterenbuch; 1978-80, partner, Garjarsa, Liss and
Conroy; 1980-86, partner, Wender, Murase and White; 1987-97, partner and
officer, Joseph Gajarsa, McDermott and Reiner, P.C.; registered patent
agent, registered patent attorney, 1963; admitted to the D.C. Bar, U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia, and U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia, 1968; Connecticut State Bar, 1969; U.S.
Supreme Court, 1971; Superior Court for D.C., Court of Appeals for D.C.,
1972; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Federal Circuits, 1974;
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, 1980; awards:
Sun and Balance Medal, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1990; Gigi
Pieri Award, Camp Hale Association, Boston, MA, 1992; Rensselaer Key
Alumni Award, 1992; 125th Anniversary Medal, Georgetown University Law
Center, 1995; Order of Commendatore, Republic of Italy, 1995; Alumni
Fellow Award, Rensselaer Alumni Association, 1996; Board of Directors:
National Italian American Foundation, 1976-97, serving as general
counsel, 1976-89, president, 1989-92, and vice chair, 1993-96;
Rensselaer Neuman Foundation, trustee, 1973-present; Foundation for
Improving Understanding of the Arts, trustee,
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1982-96; Outward Bound, U.S.A., trustee, 1987-2002; John Carroll
Society, Board of Governors, 1992-96; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
trustee, 1994-present; Georgetown University, regent, 1995-2001;
Georgetown University Board of Directors, 2001-present; member: Federal,
American, Federal Circuit, and D.C. Bar Associations; American
Judicature Association; nominated for appointment on April 18, 1996 by
President Clinton; confirmed by the Senate on July 31, 1997; entered
service September 12, 1997.
RICHARD LINN, circuit judge; born in Brooklyn, NY, April 13, 1944;
son of Marvin and Enid Linn; graduated in 1961 from Polytechnic
Preparatory County Day School, Brooklyn, NY; received Bachelor of
Electrical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in
1965, and J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1969; served as
patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1965-68; member
of the founding Board of Governors of the Virginia State Bar Section on
Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, chairman, 1975; member of the
American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law Section; the American
Intellectual Property Law Association; the District of Columbia Bar
Association Intellectual Property Section; the Virginia Bar Intellectual
Property Law Section; and the Federal Circuit Bar Association; admitted
to the Virginia Bar in 1969, the District of Columbia Bar in 1970, and
the New York Bar in 1994; admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme
Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Sixth, District of
Columbia, and Federal Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the
Eastern District of Virginia and the District of Columbia; partner,
Marks and Murase, L.L.P., 1977-97, and member of the Executive
Committee,
1987-97; partner, Foley and Lardner, 1997-99, Practice Group Leader,
Electronics Practice Group, and Intellectual Property Department, 1997-
99; recipient, Rensselaer Alumni Association Fellows Award for 2000;
adjunct professor of law, George Washington University Law School, 2001-
present; member, Advisory Board of the George Washington University Law
School, 2001-present; Master, Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court, 2000-
present; nominated to be Circuit Judge by President William J. Clinton
on September 28, 1999, and confirmed by the Senate on November 19, 1999;
assumed duties of the office on January 1, 2000.
TIMOTHY B. DYK, circuit judge; nominated for appointment on April 1,
1998 by President Clinton; confirmed by the Senate on May 24, 2000;
entered on duty June 9, 2000; education: Harvard College, A.B. (cum
laude), 1958; Harvard Law School, LL.B. (magna cum laude), 1961; prior
employment: law clerk to Justices Reed and Burton (retired), 1961-62;
law clerk to Chief Justice Warren, 1962-63; special assistant to
Assistant Attorney General, Louis F. Oberdorfer, 1963-64; associate and
partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, 1964-90; partner, and chair, of
Issues & Appeals Practice area (until nomination) with Jones, Day,
Reavis and Pogue, 1990-2000; and Adjunct Professor at Yale, University
of Virginia and Georgetown Law Schools.
SHARON PROST, circuit judge; born Newburyport, MA; daughter of
Zyskind and Ester Prost; educated in Hartford, CT; B.S., Cornell
University, 1973; M.B.A., George Washington University, 1975; J.D.,
Washington College of Law, American University, 1979; admitted to
practice in Washington, DC, 1979; LL.M., George Washington University
School of Law, 1984; Labor Relations Specialist, U.S. Civil Service
Commission, 1973-76; Labor Relations Specialist / Auditor, U.S. General
Accounting Office, 1976-79; Trial Attorney, Federal Labor Relations
Authority, 1979-82; Chief Counsel's Office, Department of Treasury,
1982-84; Assistant Solicitor, Associate Solicitor, and then Acting
Solicitor, National Labor Relations Board, 1984-89; Adjunct Professor of
Labor Law, George Mason University School of Law, 1986-87; Chief Labor
Counsel, Senate Labor Committee--minority, 1989-93; Chief Counsel,
Senate Judiciary Committee--minority, 1993-95; Deputy Chief Counsel,
Senate Judiciary Committee--majority, 1995-2001; Chief Counsel, Senate
Judiciary Committee--majority, 2001; appointed by President George W.
Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, September 21,
2001; assumed duties of the office, October 3, 2001; two sons, Matthew
and Jeffrey.
DANIEL M. FRIEDMAN, senior judge; born New York, NY, February 8,
1916; son of Henry M. and Julia (Freedman) Friedman; attended the
Ethical Culture Schools in New York City; A.B., Columbia College, 1937;
LL.B., Columbia Law School, 1940; married to Leah L. Lipson (deceased),
January 16, 1955; married to Elizabeth M. Ellis (deceased), October 18,
1975; admitted to New York bar, 1941; private practice, New York, NY,
1940-42; legal staff, Securities and Exchange Commission, 1942, 1946-51;
served in the U.S. Army, 1942-46; Appellate Section, Antitrust Division,
U.S. Department of Justice,
1951-59; assistant to the Solicitor General, 1959-62; second assistant
to the Solicitor General, 1962-68; First Deputy Solicitor General, 1968-
78; Acting Solicitor General, January-
March 1977; nominated by President Carter as chief judge of the U.S.
Court of Claims, March 22, 1978; confirmed by the Senate, May 17, 1978,
and assumed duties of the office
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on May 24, 1978; as of October 1, 1982, continued in office as judge of
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, pursuant to section
165, Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982, Public Law 97-164, 96 Stat.
50.
GLENN LeROY ARCHER, Jr., senior judge; born March 21, 1929, in
Densmore, KS; son of Glenn L. and Ruth Agnes Archer; educated in Kansas
public schools; B.A., Yale University, 1951; J.D., with honors, George
Washington University Law School, 1954; married to Carole Joan Thomas;
children: Susan, Sharon, Glenn III, and Thomas; First Lieutenant, Judge
Advocate General's Office, U.S. Air Force, 1954-56; associate (1956-60)
and partner (1960-81), Hamel, Park, McCabe and Saunders, Washington, DC;
nominated in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan to be Assistant Attorney
General for the Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, and served in
that position from December 1981 to December 1985; nominated in October
1985 by President Ronald Reagan to be circuit judge, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit; took the oath of office as a Circuit
Judge in December 1985; elevated to the position of Chief Judge on March
18, 1994, served in that capacity until December 24, 1997; took senior
status beginning December 25, 1997.
S. JAY PLAGER, senior judge; born May 16, 1931, son of A.L. and
Clara Plager; educated public schools, Long Branch, NJ; A.B., University
of North Carolina, 1952; J.D., University of Florida, with high honors,
1958; LL.M., Columbia University, 1961; Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi,
Order of the Coif, Holloway fellow, University of North Carolina;
Editor-in-Chief, University of Florida Law Review; Charles Evans Hughes
Fellow, Columbia University; three children; commissioned, Ensign U.S.
Navy, 1952; active duty Korean conflict; honorable discharge as
Commander, USNR, 1971; professor, Faculty of Law, University of Florida,
1958-64; University of Illinois, 1964-77; Indiana University School of
Law, Bloomington, 1977-89; visiting research professor of law,
University of Wisconsin, 1967-68; visiting fellow, Trinity College and
visiting professor, Cambridge University, 1980; visiting scholar,
Stanford University Law School, 1984-85; dean and professor, Indiana
University School of Law, Bloomington, 1977-84; counselor to the Under
Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1986-87;
Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of
the President of the United States, 1987-88; Administrator, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget,
Executive Office of the President of the United States, 1988-89; circuit
judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, appointed by
President George Bush, November 1989.
Officers of the United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
Circuit Executive and Clerk of Court.--Jan Horbaly, (202) 312-5520.
Senior Technical Assistant.--Melvin L. Halpern, 312-3485.
Senior Staff Attorney.--Eleanor M. Thayer, 312-3490.
Administrative Services Officer.--Ruth A. Butler, 633-6588.
Circuit Librarian.--Patricia M. McDermott, 312-5500.
Automation and Technology Manager.--Larry Luallen, 312-3475.
Operations Officer.--Dale Bosley, 312-5517.
Chief Deputy Clerk for Administration.--Edward W. Hosken, Jr., 633-
6550.
Chief Deputy Clerk for Operations.--Pamela Twiford, 633-6550.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse, 333 Constitution Avenue, Room
4106, 20001
phone (202) 354-3320, fax 354-3412
THOMAS F. HOGAN, chief judge; born in Washington, DC, May 31, 1938;
son of Adm. Bartholomew W. (MC) (USN) Surgeon Gen., USN, 1956-62, and
Grace (Gloninger) Hogan; married to Martha L. Wyrick (M.D.), July 16,
1966; one son, Thomas Garth; Georgetown Preparatory School, 1956; A.B.,
Georgetown University (classical), 1960; master's program, American and
English literature, George Washington University, 1960-62; J.D.,
Georgetown University, 1965-66; Honorary Degree, Doctor of Laws,
Georgetown University Law Center, May 1999; St. Thomas More Fellow,
Georgetown University Law Center,
1965-66; American Jurisprudence Award: Corporation Law; member: bars of
the District of Columbia and Maryland; law clerk to Hon. William B.
Jones, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1966-67;
counsel, Federal Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws, 1967-68;
private practice of law in the District of Columbia and Maryland,
1968-82; adjunct professor of law, Potomac School of Law, 1977-79;
adjunct professor of law, Georgetown University Law Center, 1986-88;
public member, officer evaluation board, U.S. Foreign Service, 1973;
member: American Bar Association, State Chairman, Maryland Drug Abuse
Education Program, Young Lawyers Section, 1970-73, District of Columbia
Bar Association, Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Maryland
State Bar Association, Montgomery County Bar Association, served on many
committees, National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Defense Research
Institute; chairman, board of directors, Christ Child Institute for
Emotionally Ill Children, 1971-74; member, The Barristers, The Lawyers
Club, USDC Executive Committee; Conference Committee on Administration
of Federal Magistrates System 1988-91; Chairman Inter-Circuit Assignment
Committee, 1990-; appointed judge of the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia by President Ronald Reagan on October 4, 1982.
Chief Judge June 19, 2001; member: Judicial Conference of the United
States 2001-; Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference July 2001-.
ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, judge; born in San Antonio, TX, July 16, 1943;
son of Nell Elizabeth Synder and Larimore S. Lamberth, Sr.; married
Janis Kay Jost, June 17, 1979; South San Antonio High School, 1961;
B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1966; LL.B., University of Texas
School of Law, 1967; permanent president, class of 1967, University of
Texas School of Law; 1967-74, U.S. Army (Captain, Judge Advocate
General's Corps, 1968-74; Vietnam Service Medal, Air Medal, Bronze Star
with Oak Leaf Cluster, Meritorious Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster);
1974-87, assistant U.S. attorney, District of Columbia (chief, civil
division, 1978-87); President's Reorganization Project, Federal Legal
Representation Study, 1978-79; honorary faculty, Army Judge Advocate
General's School, 1976; Attorney General's Special Commendation Award;
Attorney General's John Marshall Award, 1982; vice chairman, Armed
Services and Veterans Affairs Committee, Section on Administrative Law,
American Bar Association, 1979-82, chairman, 1983-84; chairman,
Professional Ethics Committee, 1989-91; co-chairman, Committee of
Article III Judges, Judiciary Section
1989-present; chairman, Federal Litigation Section, 1986-87; chairman,
Federal Rules Committee, 1985-86; deputy chairman, Council of the
Federal Lawyer, 1980-83; chairman, Career Service Committee, Federal Bar
Association, 1978-80; appointed judge, U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia by President Ronald Reagan, November 16, 1987;
appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist to be Presiding Judge of the United
States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, May 1995-2002.
GLADYS KESSLER, judge; born in New York, NY, January 22, 1938;
Education: B.A., Cornell University, 1959; LL.B. Harvard Law School,
1962; member: American Judicature Society (board of directors, 1985-89);
National Center for State Courts (board of directors, 1984-87); National
Association of Women Judges (president, 1983-84); Women Judges' Fund for
Justice, (president, 1980-82); Fellows of the American Bar Foundation;
President's Council of Cornell Women; American Law Institute; American
Bar Association--committees: Alter
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native Dispute Resolution, Bioethics and AIDS; Executive Committee,
Conference of Federal Trial Judges; private law practice--partner,
Roisman, Kessler and Cashdan, 1969-77; associate judge, Superior Court
of the District of Columbia, 1977-94; court administrative activities:
District of Columbia Courts Joint Committee on Judicial Administration,
1989-94; Domestic Violence Coordinating Council (chairperson, 1993-94);
Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Program (supervising judge, 1985-90);
family division, D.C. Superior Court (presiding judge,
1981-85); Einshac Institute Board of Directors; appointed judge, U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia by President Bill Clinton,
June 16, 1994, and took oath of office, July 18, 1994; U.S. Judicial
Conference Committee on Court Administration and Court Management;
Frederick B. Abramson Memorial Foundation Board of Directors; Our Place
Board of Directors; Vice Chair, District of Columbia Judicial
Disabilities and Tenure Commissio.
PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, judge; born in Buffalo, NY, February 20, 1944; son
of Cecil A. and Charlotte Wagner Friedman; married to Elizabeth Ann
Zicherman, May 25, 1975; education: B.A. (political science), Cornell
University, 1965; J.D., cum laude, School of Law, State University of
New York at Buffalo, 1968; admitted to the bars of the District of
Columbia, New York, U.S. Supreme Court, and U.S. Courts of Appeals for
the D.C., Federal, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth and Eleventh
Circuits; Law Clerk to Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., U.S. district
court for the District of Columbia, 1968-69; Law Clerk to Judge Roger
Robb, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1969-
70; Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1970-74;
assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, 1974-76;
associate independent counsel, Iran-Contra investigation, 1987-88,
private law practice, White and Case (partner, 1979-94; associate, 1976-
79); member: American Bar Association, Commission on Multidisciplinary
Practice (1998-2000), District of Columbia bar (president, 1986-87),
American Law Institute (1984) and ALI Council, 1998, American Academy of
Appellate Lawyers, Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Women's
Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Washington Bar Association,
Hispanic Bar Association, Assistant United States Attorneys Association
of the District of Columbia (president, 1976-77), Civil Justice Reform
Act Advisory Group (chair, 1991-94), District of Columbia Judicial
Nomination Commission (member, 1990-94; chair, 1992-94), Advisory
Committee on Procedures, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
(1982-88), Grievance Committee; U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia (member, 1981-87; chair, 1983-85); fellow, American College of
Trial Lawyers; fellow, American Bar Foundation; board of directors:
Frederick B. Abramson Memorial Foundation (president, 1991-94),
Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (1988-92), Washington Legal Clinic
for the Homeless (member, 1987-92; vice-president 1988-91), Stuart
Stiller Memorial Foundation (1980-94), American Judicature Society
(1990-94), District of Columbia Public Defender Service (1989-92);
member: Cosmos Club, Lawyers Club of Washington; appointed judge, U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia by President William
Clinton,
June 16, 1994, and took oath of office August 1, 1994; U.S. Judicial
Conference Advisory Committee on Federal Criminal Rules.
RICARDO M. URBINA, judge; 55, sits on the United States District
Court for the District of Columbia; born of an Honduran father and
Puerto Rican mother in Manhattan, New York; attended Georgetown
University and Georgetown Law Center before working as a staff attorney
with the D.C. Public Defender Service; after a period of private
practice with an emphasis on commercial litigation, joined the faculty
of Howard University School of Law, directed the university's criminal
justice clinic and taught criminal law, criminal procedure and torts;
voted Professor of the Year by the Howard Law School student body, 1978;
nominated to the D.C. Superior Court by President Carter, 1980;
appointed to the bench as President Reagan's first presidential judicial
appointment and the first Hispanic judge in the history of the District
of Columbia, 1981; during his thirteen years on the Superior Court,
Judge Urbina served as Chief Presiding Judge of the Family Division for
three years and chaired the committee that drafted the Child Support
Guidelines later adopted as the District of Columbia's child support
law; managed a criminal calendar 1989-90 that consisted exclusively of
first degree murder, rape and child molestation cases; designated by the
Chief Judge to handle a special calendar consisting of complex civil
litigation; twice recognized by the United States Department of Health
and Human Services for his work with children and families; selected one
of the Washingtonians of the Year by Washington Magazine, 1986; received
Hugh Johnson Memorial Award for his many contributions to ``. . . the
creation of harmony among diverse elements of the community and the bar
by D.C. Hispanic Bar Association;'' received the Hispanic National Bar
Association's 1993 award for demonstrated commitment to the
``Preservation of Civil and Constitutional Rights of All
Americans'', and the 1995 NBC-Hispanic Magazine National VIDA Award in
recognition of lifetime community service; adjunct professor at the
George Washington University Law School since 1993; served as a visiting
instructor of trial advocacy at the Harvard Law School, 1996-97;
appointment by President Clinton to the U.S. District Court for the
District
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of Columbia in 1994 made him the first Latino ever appointed to the
federal bench in Washington, D.C. Bar Association, 1994; appointed by
Chief Justice Rehnquist to serve on the Federal Judicial Conference
Committee on Security, Space and Facilities, 1997; Latino Civil Rights
Center presented him with the Justice Award in 1999; conferred
Distinguished Adjunct Teacher Award by George Washington University Law
School in 2001.
EMMET G. SULLIVAN, judge; born in Washington, DC, to Emmet A.
Sullivan and the late Eileen G. Sullivan; graduated McKinley High
School, 1964; B.A., Howard University, 1968; J.D., Howard University Law
School, 1971; married to Nan Sullivan; two sons, Emmet and Erik; law
clerk to Judge James A. Washington, Jr.; joined the law firm of Houston
and Gardner, 1973-80, became a partner; thereafter was a partner with
Houston, Sullivan and Gardner; board of directors of the D.C. Law
Students in Court Program; D.C. Judicial Conference Voluntary
Arbitration Committee; Nominating Committee of the Bar Association of
the District of Columbia; U.S. District Court Committee on Grievances;
adjunct professor at Howard University School of Law; member: National
Bar Association, Washington Bar Association, Bar Association of the
District of Columbia; appointed by President Reagan to the Superior
Court of the District of Columbia as an associate judge, 1984; deputy
presiding judge and presiding judge of the probate and tax division;
chairperson of the rules committees for the probate and tax divisions;
member: Court Rules Committee and the Jury Plan Committee; appointed by
President George Bush to serve as an associate judge of the District of
Columbia Court of Appeals, 1991; chairperson for the nineteenth annual
judicial conference of the District of Columbia, 1994. The Conference
theme was ``Rejuvenating Juvenile Justice--Responses to the Problems of
Juvenile Violence in the District of Columbia''; appointed by chief
judge Wagner, to chair the ``Task Force on Families and Violence for the
District of Columbia Courts''; nominated to the U.S. District Court by
President William Clinton on March 22, 1994; and confirmed by the U.S.
Senate on June 15, 1994. Appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist to serve
on the Federal Judicial Conference Committee on Criminal Law, 1998;
District of Columbia Judicial Disabilities and Tenure Commission, 1996-
2001; presently serving on the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination
Commission; presently serving on the Executive Committee of the Council
for Court Excellence; first person in the District of Columbia to have
been appointed to three judicial positions by three different U.S.
Presidents.
JAMES ROBERTSON, judge; born Cleveland, OH, May 18, 1938; son of
Frederick Irving and Doris (Byars) Robertson; married to Berit Selma
Persson of Ange, Sweden, September 19, 1959; children: Stephen,
Catherine, and Peter; educated at Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, OH;
A.B., Princeton University, 1959 (Woodrow Wilson School); served as an
officer in the U.S. Navy, on destroyers and in the Office of Naval
Intelligence,
1959-64; LL.B., George Washington University, 1965 (editor-in-chief,
George Washington Law Review); admitted to the bar of the District of
Columbia, 1966; associate, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, 1965-69; chief
counsel, litigation office, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under
Law, Jackson, MS, 1969-70; executive director, Lawyers' Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, 1971-72; partner, Wilmer, Cutler
and Pickering,
1973-94; co-chair, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1985-
87; president, Southern Africa Legal Services and Legal Education
Project, Inc., 1989-94; president, District of Columbia bar, 1991-92;
fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; fellow, American Bar
Foundation; member, American Law Institute; Master, Edward Bennett
Williams Inn of Court; appointed U.S. District Judge for the District of
Columbia by President Clinton on October 11, 1994 and took oath of
office on December 31, 1994; Member, Judicial Conference Committee on
Information Technology, 1996-present.
COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY, judge; born in New York City; daughter of
Konstantine and Irene Kollar; married to John Kotelly; attended
bilingual schools in Mexico, Ecuador and Venezuela, and Georgetown
Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, D.C.; received B.A. degree
in English at Catholic University (Delta Epsilon Honor Society);
received J.D. at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law (Moot
Court Board of Governors); law clerk to Hon. Catherine B. Kelly,
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1968-69; attorney, United States
Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Appellate Section (1969-72);
chief legal counsel, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Department of Health and
Human Services,
1972-84; received Saint Elizabeths Hospital Certificate of Appreciation,
1981; Meritorious Achievement Award from Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental
Health Administration (ADAMHA), Department of Health and Human Services,
1981, appointed judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia by
President Ronald Reagan, October 3, 1984, took oath of office October
21, 1984; served as Deputy Presiding Judge, Criminal Division, January
1996-April 1997; received Achievement Recognition Award, Hispanic
Heritage CORO Awards Celebration, 1996; appointed judge, U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia by President William Jefferson
Clinton on March 26, 1997, took oath of office May 12, 1997;
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appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist to serve on the Financial
Disclosure Committee,
2000-2002; Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court, 2002-present.
HENRY H. KENNEDY, Jr., judge; born in Columbia, South Carolina,
February 22,
1948; son of Henry and Rachel Kennedy; married Altomease Rucker of
Cleveland, Ohio, September 20, 1980; children: Morgan Rucker Kennedy and
Alexandra Rucker Kennedy; A.B., Princeton University, 1970; J.D.,
Harvard University, 1973; admitted to the bar of the District of
Columbia, 1973; Reavis, Pogue, Neal and Rose, 1972 and 1973; Assistant
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1973-76; United
States Magistrate for the District of Columbia, April 1976-79; Judge,
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, appointed by President Jimmy
Carter, December 17, 1979; member: American Bar Foundation; District of
Columbia Bar; Washington Bar Association; Bar Association of the
District of Columbia; American Law Institute; member: The Barristers;
Sigma Pi Phi; Epsilon Boule; Trustee, Princeton University; appointed
judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, by
President William Jefferson Clinton on September 18, 1997.
RICHARD W. ROBERTS, judge; born in New York, NY; son of Beverly N.
Roberts and Angeline Tynes Roberts; married to Vonya B. McCann;
children: Jordan and Jillian; graduate of the High School of Music and
Art, 1970; A.B. Vassar College, 1974; M.I.A. School for International
Training, 1978; J.D., Columbia Law School, 1978; Honors Program trial
attorney, Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of
Justice, Washington, D.C., 1978-1982; Associate, Covington and Burling,
Washington, D.C., 1982-1986; Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District
of NY, 1986-1988; Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1988-1993, then Principal
Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia, 1993-1995; Chief,
Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice,
Washington, DC, 1995-1998; adjunct professor of trial practice,
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC,
1983-1984; Guest faculty, Harvard Law School, Trial Advocacy Workshop,
1984 to present; admitted to bars of NY (1979) and DC (1983); U.S.
District Court for District of Columbia, 1983; U.S. Court of Appeals for
the D.C. Circuit, 1984; U.S. Supreme Court, 1985; U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of NY and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit, 1986; past or present member or officer of National Black
Prosecutors Association; Washington Bar Association; National Conference
of Black Lawyers; Department of Justice Association of Black Attorneys;
Department of Justice Association of Hispanic Employees for Advancement
and Development; DC Bar, Committee on Professionalism and Public
Understanding About the Law; American Bar Association Criminal Justice
Section Committees on Continuing Legal Education, and Race and Racism in
the Criminal Justice System; ABA Task Force on the Judiciary; DC Circuit
Judicial Conference Arrangements Committee; D.C. Judicial Conference
Planning Committee; Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court, Washington,
DC, master; board of trustees, Vassar College; board of directors,
Alumnae and Alumni of Vassar College; African American Alumni of Vassar
College; Vassar Club of Washington, DC; Concerned Black Men, Inc.,
Washington DC Chapter; Sigma Pi Phi, Epsilon Boule; Council on Foreign
Relations; DC Coalition Against Drugs and Violence; Murch Elementary
School Restructuring Team; nominated as U.S. District Judge for the
District of Columbia by President Clinton on January 27, 1998 and
confirmed by the Senate on June 5, 1998. Took oath of office on July 31,
1998.
ELLEN SEGAL HUVELLE, judge; born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 3,
1948; daughter of Robert M. Segal, Esquire and Sharlee Segal; married to
Jeffrey Huvelle, Esquire; children: Nicole and Justin; B.A., Wellesley
College, 1970; Masters in City Planning, Yale University, 1972; J.D.,
magna cum laude, Boston College Law School, 1975 (Order of the Coif;
Articles Editor of the law review); law clerk to Chief Justice Edward F.
Hennessey, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1975-1976; associate,
Williams & Connolly, 1976-1984; partner, Williams & Connolly, 1984-1990;
associate judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia 1990-1999;
member: American Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar; Women's Bar
Association, Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Master in the Edward
Bennett Williams Inn of Court and member of the Inn's Executive
Committee; instructor of Trial Advocacy at the University of Virginia
Law School; member of Visiting Faculty at Harvard Law School's Trial
Advocacy Workshop; Boston College Law School Board of Overseers;
appointed judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by
President Clinton in October 1999, and took oath of office on February
25, 2000.
REGGIE B. WALTON, judge; born in Donora, Pennsylvania, February 8,
1949; son of the late Theodore and Ruth (Garard) Walton; married to
Debra A. Coats-Walton (M.D.); October 17, 1987; one daughter, Danon;
B.A., West Virginia State College, 1971; J.D., American University,
Washington College of Law, 1974; admitted to the bars of the Supreme
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Court of Pennsylvania, 1974; United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1975; District of Columbia Court of
Appeals, 1976; United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit, 1977; Supreme Court of the United States, 1980; United
States District Court for the District of Columbia; Staff Attorney,
Defender Association of Philadelphia, 1974-1976; Assistant United States
Attorney for the District of Columbia,
1976-1980; Chief, Career Criminal Unit, Assistant United States Attorney
for the District of Columbia, 1979-1980; Executive Assistant United
States Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1980-1981; Associate
Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1981-1989; Deputy
Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division, Superior Court of the District
of Columbia, 1986-1989; Associate Director, Office of National Drug
Control Policy, Executive Office of the President, 1989-1991; Senior
White House Advisor for Crime, The White House, 1991; Associate Judge,
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1991-2001; Presiding Judge
of the Domestic Violence Unit, Superior Court of the District of
Columbia, 2000; Presiding Judge of the Family Division, Superior Court
of the District of Columbia, 2001; Instructor: National Judicial
College, Reno, Nevada, 1999-present; Harvard University Law School,
Trial Advocacy Workshop, 1994-present; National Institute of Trial
Advocacy, Georgetown University Law School, 1983-present; Co-author,
Pretrial Drug Testing--an Essential component of the National Drug
Control Strategy, Brigham Young University Law Journal of Public Law
(1991); Distinguished Alumnus Award, American University, Washington
College of Law (1991); The William H. Hastie Award, The Judicial Council
of the National Bar Association (1993); Commissioned as a Kentucky
Colonel by the Governor (1990, 1991); Governor's Proclamation declaring
April 9, 1991, Judge Reggie B. Walton Day in the State of Louisiana; The
West Virginia State College National Alumni Association James R. Waddy
Meritorious Service Award (1990); Secretary's Award, United States
Department of Veterans Affairs (1990); Outstanding Alumnus Award,
Ringgold High School (1987); Director's Award for Superior Performance
as an Assistant United States Attorney (1980); Profiled in book entitled
``Black Judges on Justice: Prospectives From The Bench'' by Linn
Washington (1995); appointed district judge, United States District
Court for the District of Columbia by President George W. Bush,
September 24, 2001, and took oath of office October 29, 2001.
JOHN D. BATES, judge; born in Elizabeth, NJ, October 11, 1946; son
of Richard D. and Sarah (Deacon) Bates; married to Carol Ann Rhees,
February 9, 1980; three children (Lauren, Brian and Kelly); B.A.,
Wesleyan University, 1968; J.D., University of Maryland School of Law,
1976; U.S. Army (1968-71, 1st Lt., Vietnam Service Medal, Bronze Star);
law clerk to Hon. Roszel Thomsen, U.S. District Court for the District
of Maryland,
1976-77; 1980-97, Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia (Chief,
Civil Division,
1987-97); Director's Award for Superior Performance (1983); Attorney
General's Special commendation Award (1986); Deputy Independent Counsel,
Whitewater Investigation,
1995-1997; private practice of law, Miller & Chevalier (partner, 1998-
2001), Chair of Government Contracts Litigation Department and member of
Executive Committee), Steptoe & Johnson (associate, 1977-80); District
of Columbia Circuit Advisory Committee for Procedures (1989-93); Civil
Justice Reform Committee of the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia (1996-2001); Treasurer, D.C. Bar (1992-93); Publications
Committee, D.C.
Bar (1991-97, Chair 1994-97); D.C. Bar Special Committee on Government
Lawyers
(1990-91); D.C. Bar Task Force on Civility in the Profession (1994-96);
D.C. Bar Committee on Examination of Rule 49 (1995-96); Chairman,
Litigation Section, Federal Bar Association (1986-89); Board of
Directors, Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban
Affairs (1999-2001).
RICHARD J. LEON, judge; 53, born in South Natick, Massachusetts on
December 3, 1949; son of Silvano B. Leon and Rita (O'Rorke) Leon;
married to M-Christine Costa; one son, Nicholas Cavanagh; A.B., Holy
Cross College, 1971, J.D., cum laude, Suffolk Law School, 1974; LL.M.
Harvard Law School, 1981; Law Clerk to Chief Justice McLaughlin and the
Associate Justices, Superior Court of Massachusetts, 1974-75; Law Clerk
to Hon. Thomas F. Kelleher, Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 1975-76;
admitted to bar, Rhode Island, 1975 and District of Columbia, 1991;
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1977-
1978; Assistant Professor of Law, St. John's Law School, New York, 1979-
1983; Senior Trial Attorney, Criminal Section, Tax Division, U.S.
Department of Justice, 1983-1987; Deputy Chief Minority Counsel, U.S.
House Select ``Iran-Contra'' Committee, 1987-1988; Deputy Assistant U.S.
Attorney General, Environmental Division, 1988-1989; Partner, Baker &
Hostetler, Washington, DC, 1989-1999; Commissioner, The White House
Fellows Commission, 1990-1992; Chief Minority Counsel, U.S. House
Foreign Affairs Committee ``October Suprise'' Task Force, 1992-1993;
Special Counsel, U.S. House Banking Committee ``Whitewater''
Investigation, 1994; Special Counsel, U.S. House Ethics Reform Task
Force, 1997; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1997-
present; Partner, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, Washington, DC, 1999-
2002; Commissioner, Judicial
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Review Commission on Foreign Asset Control, 2000-2001; Master, Edward
Bennett Williams Inn of Court; appointed U.S. District Judge for the
District of Columbia by President George W. Bush on February 19, 2002;
took oath of office on March 20, 2002.
ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, judge; born in White Plains, NY, November 19,
1945; daughter of Thomas C. and Alice Henry Mayers; married to Philip L.
Collyer, June 22, 1968; one son; educated in parochial and public
schools in Stamford, Connecticut; B.A., Trinity College, Washington, DC,
1968; J.D., University of Denver College of Law, 1977; practiced with
Sherman & Howard, Denver, Colorado, 1977-1981; Chairman, Federal Mine
Safety and Health Review Commission, 1981-1984 by appointment of
President Ronald Reagan with Senate confirmation; General Counsel,
National Labor Relations Board, 1984-1989 by appointment of President
Ronald Reagan with Senate confirmation; private practice with Crowell &
Moring LLP, Washington, DC 1989-2003; member and chairman of the firm's
Management Committee; appointed U.S. District Judge for the District of
Columbia by President George W. Bush and took oath of office on January
2, 2003.
SENIOR JUDGES
WILLIAM BENSON BRYANT, senior judge; born Wetumpka, AL, September
18, 1911; son of Benson and Alberta Bryant; married to Astaire A.
Gonzalez (deceased), August 25, 1934; children: Astaire and William,
Jr.; A.B., Howard University, 1932; LL.B., Howard University Law School,
1936; served in U.S. Army, World War II, 1943-47; member of the bar of
the District of Columbia and of the Supreme Court of the United States;
assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, 1951-54; private
practice of law in District of Columbia as partner in firm of Houston,
Bryant and Gardner, 1954-65; member: Committee on Admissions and
Grievances of U.S. District Court for District of Columbia, 1959-65;
District of Columbia Board of Appeals and Review, District of Columbia
Special Police Trial Board, American Law Institute, National Lawyers'
Club (honorary); appointed judge of the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia Circuit by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 11,
1965, and entered upon the duties of that office on August 16, 1965;
served as chief judge, 1977-81; took senior judge status on January 31,
1982.
LOUIS FALK OBERDORFER, senior judge; born in Birmingham, AL,
February 21, 1919; son of A. Leo and Stella Falk Oberdorfer; married to
Elizabeth Weil of Montgomery, AL, July 31, 1941; children: John,
Kathryn, Thomas, and William; A.B., Dartmouth College, 1939; LL.B., Yale
Law School, 1946 (editor in chief, Yale Law Journal, 1941); admitted to
the bar of Alabama, 1947, District of Columbia, 1949; U.S. Army, rising
from private to captain, 1941-45; law clerk to Justice Hugo L. Black,
1946-47; attorney, Paul Weiss, Wharton, Garrison, 1947-51; partner,
Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, and predecessor firms, 1951-61 and 1965-
77; Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division, U.S. Department of
Justice, 1961-65; president, District of Columbia Bar, 1977; transition
chief executive officer, Legal Services Corp., 1975; co-chairman,
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,
1967-69; member, Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,
1963-84; visiting lecturer, Yale Law School, 1966, 1971; adjunct
professor, Georgetown Law Center,
1993-present; appointed judge of the U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia by President Jimmy Carter on October 11, 1977, and
took oath of office on November 1, 1977; senior status July 31, 1992.
JOHN GARRETT PENN, senior judge; born in Pittsfield, MA, March 19,
1932; son
of John and Eugenie Heyliger Penn; married to Ann Elizabeth Rollison of
Lenox, MA,
May 7, 1966; children: John, Karen, and David; A.B., University of
Massachusetts (Amherst), 1954; LL.B., Boston University School of Law,
1957; admitted to the bars of Massachusetts, 1957 and District of
Columbia, 1970; U.S. Army, first lieutenant, Judge Advocate General
Corps, 1958-61; attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division,
1961-70; trial attorney, 1961-65, reviewer, 1965-68, assistant chief,
1968-70; National Institute of Public Affairs Fellow, Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1967-
68; Awarded the Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit by the
Washington Bar Association, May 1996; appointed judge, Superior Court of
the District of Columbia by President Richard Nixon, October 1970;
appointed judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by
President Jimmy Carter, March 23, 1979, and took oath of office, May 15,
1979; Chief Judge March 1, 1992--July 21, 1997.
NORMA HOLLOWAY JOHNSON, senior judge; born in Lake Charles, LA;
daughter of H. Lee and Beatrice Williams Holloway; married to Julius A.
Johnson of St. Louis, MO, June 18, 1964; B.S., University of the
District of Columbia, 1955; J.D., Georgetown
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University Law Center, 1962; admitted to the bar of the District of
Columbia, 1962; attorney, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice,
1963-67; Office of Corporation Counsel,
District of Columbia, 1967-70; judge, Superior Court of the District of
Columbia,
1970-80; appointed judge, U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia by President
Jimmy Carter, May 12, 1980, and took oath of office, July 8, 1980; Chief
Judge
July 21, 1997 to June 18, 2001.
THOMAS PENFIELD JACKSON, judge; born Washington, DC, January 10,
1937; A.B., Dartmouth College, 1958; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1964;
line officer aboard U.S. Navy destroyer, 1958-61; admitted to bars of
District of Columbia (1965), Maryland (1966), and U.S. Supreme Court
(1970); private practice of law in the District of Columbia and
Maryland, with firm of Jackson and Campbell, P.C., 1965-82; president,
bar association of the District of Columbia, 1981-82; fellow, American
College of Trial Lawyers; appointed judge of U.S. District Court for the
District of Columbia by President Ronald Reagan, June 25, 1982; took
senior status February, 2002.
Officers of the United States District Court
for the District of Columbia
United States Magistrate Judges: Deborah A. Robinson; Alan Kay; John
M. Facciola.
Clerk of Court.--Nancy Mayer-Whittington.
Administrative Assistant to the Chief Judge.--Sheldon L. Snook.
Bankruptcy Judge.--S. Martin Teel, Jr.
Bankruptcy Clerk of Court.--Denise Curtis.
Chief Probation Officer.--Richard A. Houck, Jr.
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UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
One Federal Plaza, New York NY 10278-0001, phone 212-264-2800
JANE A. RESTANI, chief judge, 2003-; born February 27, 1948 in San
Francisco, CA; parents, Emilia C. and Roy J. Restani; B.A., University
of California at Berkeley, 1969; J.D., University of California at
Davis, 1973; law review staff writer, 1971-72; articles editor, 1972-73;
member, Order of the Coif; elected to Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society;
admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the State of California,
1973; joined the civil division of the Department of Justice under the
Attorney General's Honor Program, 1973 as a trial attorney; assistant
chief commercial litigation section, civil division, 1976-80; director,
commercial litigation branch, civil division, 1980-83; assumed the
duties of a judge of the U.S. Court of International Trade on November
25, 1983; husband, Ira Bloom.
GREGORY W. CARMAN, judge; born in Farmingdale, Long Island, NY,
January 31, 1937; son of retired District Court Judge Willis B. and
Marjorie Sosa Carman; B.A., St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, 1958;
national exchange student, 1956-57, studying at the University of Paris
through Sweet Briar College Junior Year in France Program; J.D., St.
John's University School of Law, (honors program), 1961; member, St.
John's Law Review; University of Virginia Law School, JAG (with honors),
1962; Master in Taxation Program, New York University School of Law;
Captain, U.S. Army, 1958-64, stationed with the 2d Infantry Division,
Fort Benning, GA; awarded Army Commendation Medal for Meritorious
Service, 1964; admitted to the New York bar, 1961; practiced law with
the firm of Carman, Callahan & Sabino, Farmingdale, NY; admitted to
practice in U.S. Court of Military Appeals, 1962; certified by Judge
Advocate General to practice at general court martial trials, 1962;
admitted to practice in the U.S. District Courts, Eastern District of
New York and Southern District of New York, 1965; Second Circuit Court
of Appeals, 1966; Supreme Court of the United States, 1967; U.S. Court
of Appeals, District of Columbia, 1982; Councilman for the town of
Oyster Bay, 1972-80; member, U.S. House of Representatives, 97th
Congress; appointed to Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs Committee and
Select Committee on Aging, 1981-82; member, International Trade,
Investment and Monetary Policy Subcommittee of House Banking Committee,
1981-82; U.S. congressional delegate, International I.M.F. Conference,
1982; nominated by President Ronald Reagan, confirmed and appointed
Judge of the U.S. Court of International Trade, March 2, 1983; served as
Acting Chief Judge, 1991; became Chief Judge, 1996; Statutory Member,
Judicial Conference of the United States; member, Executive Committee,
Judicial Branch Committee, and Subcommittee on Long Range Planning of
the Judicial Conference of the United States; member, Bicentennial
Commission of Nassau County; Rotary International, 1964-present; named a
Paul Harris Fellow of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International;
chairman, United Way, Town of Oyster Bay, 1973-76; member, Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks; past president, Savings and Loan League
Committee, New York Chapter of the American Bar Association; member:
American Bar Association; Fellow, American Bar Foundation; member, New
York State Bar Association; member and former chair, New York State Bar
Association's Committee on Courts and the Community; recipient of 1996
Special Recognition Award from New York State Bar Association's
Committee on Courts and the Community; director and member, Respect for
Law Alliance, Inc.; member, Executive Committee and president-elect
2003-04 of the Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court; past president,
Protestant Lawyers Association of Long Island; former member, Vestry,
St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Farmingdale, NY, 1992-94; Fellow,
American College of Mortgage Attorneys; Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity;
District Committee member, Nassau County Council of Boy Scouts of
America, 1964 to present; past vice-chair, Paumanok Boy Scout District;
former district chair, United Cerebral Palsy; member: Holland Society;
recipient of 1999 Gold Medal for Distinguished Achievement in
Jurisprudence from The Holland Society of New York; Doctor of Laws,
honoris causa, Nova Southeastern University, 1999; Distinguished Jurist
in Residence,
Touro College Law Center, 2000; Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, St.
John's University, 2002; Sigma Chi, social fraternity; married to Nancy
Endruschat (deceased); children: Gregory Wright, Jr., John Frederick,
James Matthew, and Mira Catherine; married to Judith L.
Dennehy, 1995; served as chief judge, 1996-2003.
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THOMAS J. AQUILINO, Jr., judge; born in Mount Kisco, NY, December 7,
1939; son of Thomas J. and Virginia B. (Doughty) Aquilino; attended
Cornell University, 1957-59; B.A., Drew University, 1959-60, 1961-62;
University of Munich, Germany, 1960-61; Free University of Berlin,
Germany, 1965-66; J.D., Rutgers University School of Law,
1966-69; research assistant, Prof. L.F.E. Goldie (Resources for the
Future--Ford Foundation)
(1967-69); administrator, Northern Region, 1969; Jessup International
Law Moot Court Competition; served in the U.S. Army, 1962-65; law clerk,
Hon. John M. Cannella, U.S. district court for the Southern District of
New York, 1969-71; attorney with Davis Polk and Wardwell, New York,
1971-85; admitted to practice New York, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts
of Appeals for Second and Third Circuits, U.S. Court of International
Trade, U.S. Court of Claims, U.S. district courts for Eastern, Southern
and Northern Districts of New York, Interstate Commerce Commission;
adjunct professor of law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1984-95;
Mem., Drew University Board of Visitors, 1997-present; appointed by
President Reagan on February 22, 1985; confirmed by U.S. Senate, April
3, 1985; married to Edith Berndt Aquilino; children: Christopher Thomas,
Philip Andrew, Alexander Berndt.
DONALD C. POGUE, was appointed a Judge of the United States Court of
International Trade (USCIT) by President Clinton in 1995; one of the
nine members of the Court, he serves as chair of the Court's Long Range
Planning Committee, and as a member of the Court's Technology Committee,
and Education Committee; served as judge in Connecticut's Superior
Court; appointed to the bench in 1994; served as chairman of
Connecticut's Commission on Hospitals and Health Care; appointed as
Commissioner by Governor O'Neill in 1989, and named chairman by Governor
Weicker; practiced law in Hartford for 15 years with the firm of
Kestell, Pogue, & Gould; lectured on labor law, at the University of
Connecticut School of Law; assisted in teaching the Harvard Law School's
program on negotiations and dispute resolution for lawyers; chaired the
Connecticut Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section;
graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College;
graduate work at the University of Essex, England; J.D., from Yale Law
School; Masters of Philosophy, Yale University; listed in Martindale-
Hubbell and in the Best Lawyers in America; resides in Connecticut with
wife, Susan, since their marriage in 1971.
EVAN J. WALLACH, judge; born in Superior, AZ, November 11, 1949; son
of Albert A. and Sara F. Wallach; married to Katherine Colleen Tobin,
1992; graduate of Acalanes High School, Lafayette, CA, 1967; attended
Diablo Valley Junior College, Pleasant Hill, CA, 1967-68; news editor
Viking Reporter; member Alfa Gamma Sigma, National Junior College Honor
Society, member Junior Varsity Wrestling Team; enlisted United States
Army, January, 1969, PVT-SGT, served as Recognizance Sergeant 8th
Engineer Bn., 1st Calvary Division (Air Mobile), Republic of Vietnam,
1970-71, Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal, Valorous Unit Citation, Good
Conduct Medal; attended University of Arizona, 1971-73, graduated B.A.,
Journalism (high honors), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Tau Alfa,
Rufenacht French language prize, Douglas Martin Journalism Scholarship;
attended University of California, Berkeley, 1973-76, graduated J.D.,
1976, research assistant to Prof. Melvin Eisenberg, member of University
of California Honor Society; Associate (1976-82) and Partner
(1983-95) Lionel Sawyer and Collins, Las Vegas, NV with emphasis on
media representation; attended Cambridge University, Cambridge, England,
LL.B. (international law) (honors), 1981, member Hughes Hall College
Rowing Club, Cambridge University Tennis Club; General Counsel and
Public Policy Advisor to U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D) of Nevada, 1987-88;
served CAPT-MAJ Nevada Army National Guard, 1989-95; served as Attorney
/ Advisor, International Affairs Division; Office of the Judge Advocate
General of the Army, February-June, 1991-92; Meritorious Service Medal
(oak leaf cluster); Nevada Medal of Merit; General Counsel, Nevada
Democratic Party, 1978-80, 1982-86; General Counsel, Reid for Congress
campaign, 1982, 1984; Reid for Senate campaign, 1986, 1992; General
Counsel, Bryan for Senate campaign, 1988; Nevada State Director, Mondale
for President campaign, 1984; State Director, Nevada and Arizona Gore
for President campaign, 1988; General Counsel Nevada Assembly Democratic
Caucus, 1990-95; General Counsel, Society for Professional Journalists,
1988-95; General Counsel, Nevada Press Association, 1989-95; awarded
American Bar Association Liberty Bell Award, 1993; Nevada State Press
Association President's Award, 1994; Clark County School Librarians
Intellectual Freedom Award, 1995; Law of War, Adjunct Professor, New
York Law School, 1997-present; Brooklyn Law School 2000 to present;
member Nevada Bar, 1977; District of Columbia, 1988; U.S. District
Court, District of Nevada, 1977; Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1989;
author, Legal Handbook for Nevada Reporters (1994); Comparison of
British and American Defense Based Prior Restraint, ICLQ (1984);
Treatment of Crude Oil As A War Munition, ICLQ (1992); Three Ways Nevada
Unconstitutionally Chills The Media; Nevada Lawyer (1994); Co-Editor,
Nevada Civil Practice Handbook (1993). Extradition to the Rwandan War
Crimes Tribunal: Is Another Treaty Required, USCLA Journal of
International Law and Foreign Affairs, Spring / Summer, 1998. The
Procedural
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and Evidentiary Rules of the Post World War II War Crimes Trials: Did
They Provide An Outline For International Criminal Procedure? Columbia
Journal of Translational Law, Spring, 1999; Webmaster, International Law
of War Association, lawofwar.org; Afghanistan, Yamashita and Uchiyama:
Does the Sauce Suit the Gander? The Army Lawyer, June 2003.
JUDITH M. BARZILAY, judge, U.S. Court of International Trade; born
January 3, 1944, Russell, KS; husband, Sal (Doron) Barzilay; children,
Ilan and Michael; parents, Arthur and Hilda Morgenstern; B.A., Wichita
State University, 1965; M.L.S., Rutgers University School of Library and
Information Science, 1971; J.D., Rutgers University School of Law, 1981,
Moot Court Board, 1980-1981; trial attorney, U.S. Department of Justice
(International Trade Field OFfice), 1983 to 1986; litigation associate,
Siegel, Mandell and Davidson, New York, NY, 1986 to 1988; Sony
Corporation of America, 1988 to 1998; customs and international trade
counsel, 1988-1989; vice-president for import and export operations,
1989-1996; vice-president for government affairs, 1996-1998; executive
board of the American Association of Exporters and Importers, 1993-1998;
appointed by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to the Advisory Committee
on Commercial Operations of the United States Customs Service, 1995-
1998; nominated for appointment January 27, 1998 by President Clinton
(D); sworn-in as judge June 3, 1998.
DELISSA A. RIDGWAY, judge; born June 28, 1955 in Kirksville, MO;
B.A. (honors), University of Missouri-Columbia, 1975; graduate work,
University of Missouri-Columbia, 1975-76; J.D., Northeastern University
School of Law, 1979; Shaw Pittman Potts & Trowbridge (Washington, D.C.),
1979-94; Chair, Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the U.S. (1994-
98); U.S. Court of International Trade (1998-Present); Adjunct Professor
of Law, Cornell Law School (1999-Present); Adjunct Professor of Law,
Washington College of Law / The American University (1992-94); District
of Columbia Bar, Secretary (1991-92), Board of Governors (1992-98);
President, Women's Bar Association (1992-93); American Bar Association;
Commission on Women in the Profession (2002-present); Federal Bar
Association, National Council (1993-2002), Government Relations
Committee (1996-present), Public Relations Committee Chair (1998-99);
Founding Member of Board, D.C. Conference on Opportunities for
Minorities in the Legal Profession (1992-93); Chair, D.C. Bar Summit on
Women in the Legal Profession (1995-98); Fellow, American Bar
Foundation; Member, American Law Institute; Fellow, Federal Bar
Foundation; Earl W. Kintner Award of the Federal Bar Association (2000);
Woman Lawyer of the Year, Washington, DC (2001).
RICHARD K. EATON, judge; District of Columbia; born in Walton, NY,
August 22, 1948; married to Susan Henshaw Jones; two children: Alice and
Elizabeth; attended Walton public schools; received B.A., Ithaca
College, 1970; J.D., Union University Albany Law School, 1974;
professional experience: Eaton and Eaton, partner (1975-76); Mudge Rose
Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, New York, NY, associate (1983-91) and
Washington, DC, partner (1993-95); Stroock & Stroock & Lavan,
Washington, DC, partner (1995-2000); served on the staff of Senator
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1977-79, 1980-83, 1991-93); confirmed by the
United States Senate October 22, 1999.
TIMOTHY C. STANCEU, was appointed to the U.S. Court of International
Trade by President George W. Bush and began serving on April 15, 2003.
In assuming this responsibility, he returned to public service after a
thirteen-year career in private practive in Washington, DC with the law
firm Hogan & Hartson L.L.P, during which he represented clients in a
variety of matters involving customs and international trade law. During
the fifteen years prior to his law practice, Judge Stanceu's career in
the Federal Government included a term as Deputy Director of the Office
of Trade and Tariff Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury,
where his responsibilities involved the regulatory and enforcement
matters of the U.S. Customs Service and other agencies. Prior to that
position, he served as Special Assistant to the Treasury Department's
Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and in several positions at the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, where he concentrated on the
development and review of regulations on various environmental subjects.
Judge Stanceu is a native of Canton, Ohio. He is a 1973 graduate of
Colgate University and received a law degree from the Georgetown
University of Law Center in 1979.
NICHOLAS TSOUCALAS, senior judge; born August 24, 1926 in New York,
NY; one of five children of George M. and Maria (Monogenis) Tsoucalas;
received B.S. degree from Kent State University, 1949; received LL.B.
from New York Law School, 1951; attended New York University Law School;
entered U.S. Navy, 1944-46; reentered Navy,
1951-52 and served on the carrier, U.S.S. Wasp; admitted to New York
bar, 1953; appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District
of New York, 1955-59; appointed in 1959 as supervisor of 1960 census for
the 17th and 18th Congressional Districts; appointed chairman, Board of
Commissioners of Appraisal; appointed judge of Criminal Court of the
City of New York, 1968; designated acting Supreme Court Justice, Kings
and Queens Counties,
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1975-82; resumed service as judge of the Criminal Court of the City of
New York until June 1986; appointed judge of the U.S. Court of
International Trade by President Ronald Reagan on September 9, 1985, and
confirmed by U.S. Senate on June 6, 1986; assumed senior status on
September 30, 1996; former chairman: Committee on Juvenile Delinquency,
Federal Bar Association, and the Subcommittee on Public Order and
Responsibility of the American Citizenship Committee of the New York
County Lawyers' Association; founder of Eastern Orthodox Lawyers'
Association; former president: Greek-American Lawyers' Association, and
Board of Directors of Greek Orthodox Church of ``Evangelismos'', St.
John's Theologos Society, and Parthenon Foundation; member, Order of
Ahepa, Parthenon Lodge, F.A.M.; married to Catherine Aravantinos; two
daughters: Stephanie (Mrs. Daniel Turriago) and Georgia (Mrs.
Christopher Argyrople); five grandchildren.
R. KENTON MUSGRAVE, senior judge, U.S. Court of International Trade;
born Clearwater, FL, September 7, 1927. Attended Augusta Academy
(Virginia); B.A., University of Washington, 1948; editorial staff,
Journal of International Law, Emory University; J.D., with distinction,
Emory University, 1953; assistant general counsel, Lockheed Aircraft and
Lockheed International, 1953-62; vice president and general counsel,
Mattel, Inc., 1963-71; director, Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey
Combined Shows, Inc., 1968-72; commissioner, BSA (Atlanta), 1952-55;
partner, Musgrave, Welbourn and Fertman, 1972-75; assistant general
counsel, Pacific Enterprises, 1975-81; vice president, general counsel
and secretary, Vivitar Corporation,
1981-85; vice president and director, Santa Barbara Applied Research
Corp., 1982-87; trustee, Morris Animal Foundation, 1981-; director
Emeritus, Pet Protection Society, 1981-; director, Dolphins of Shark Bay
(Australia) Foundation, 1985-; trustee, The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund,
1987-; trustee, The Ocean Conservancy, 2000-present; vice president and
director, South Bay Social Services Group, 1963-70; director, Palos
Verdes Community Arts Association, 1973-79; member, Governor of
Florida's Council of 100, 1970-73; director, Orlando Bank and Trust,
1970-73; counsel, League of Women Voters, 1964-66; member, State Bar of
Georgia, 1953-; State Bar of California, 1962-; Los Angeles County Bar
Association,
1962-87 and chairman, Corporate Law Departments Section, 1965-66;
admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, 1962; Supreme Court
of Georgia, 1953; California Supreme Court, 1962; U.S. Customs Court,
1967; U.S. Court of International Trade, 1980. Married May 7, 1949 to
former Ruth Shippen Hoppe, of Atlanta, GA. Three children: Laura Marie
Musgrave (deceased), Ruth Shippen Musgrave, Esq., and Forest Kenton
Musgrave. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan on July 1, 1987;
confirmed by the Senate on November 9, and took oath of office on
November 13, 1987.
RICHARD W. GOLDBERG, senior judge; born September 23, 1927 in Fargo,
ND; J.D. from the University of Miami, 1952; served on active duty as an
Air Force Judge Advocate, 1953-56; admitted to Washington, DC bar,
Florida bar and North Dakota bar; from 1959 to 1983, owned and operated
a regional grain processing firm in North Dakota; served as State
Senator from North Dakota for eight years; taught military law for the
Army
and Air Force ROTC at North Dakota State University; was vice-chairman
of the board
of Minneapolis Grain Exchange; joined the Reagan administration in 1983
in Washington at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Served as Deputy
Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs and
later as Acting Under Secretary; in 1990 joined the Washington, DC law
firm of Anderson, Hibey and Blair; appointed judge of the U.S. Court of
International Trade in 1991; assumed senior status in 2001; married: two
children, a daughter and a son.
Officers of the United States Court of International Trade
Clerk.--Leo M. Gordon (212) 264-2814.
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UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS
Lafayette Square, 717 Madison Place NW 20005, phone (202) 219-9657
EDWARD J. DAMICH, chief judge; born in Pittsburgh, PA, June 19,
1948; son of John and Josephine (Lovrencic) Damich; A.B., St. Stephen's
College, 1970; J.D., Catholic University, 1976; professor of law at
Delaware School of Law of Widener University, 1976-84; served as a Law
and Economics Fellow at Columbia University School of Law, where he
earned his L.L.M. in 1983 and his J.S.D. in 1991; professor of law at
George Mason University, 1984-98; appointed by President Bush to be a
Commissioner of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal, 1992-93; Chief
Intellectual Property Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee, 1995-
98; appointed by President Clinton as judge, U.S. Court of Federal
Claims, October 22, 1998; appointed by President Bush as chief judge,
U.S. Court of Federal Claims, May 13, 2002; admitted to the Bars of the
District of Columbia and Pennsylvania; member of the District of
Columbia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association, American Bar
Association, Supreme Court of the United States, the Federal Circuit and
Association litteraire et artistique internationale; president of the
National Federation of Croatian Americans, 1994-95. At present Judge
Damich is an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law
Center.
LAWRENCE M. BASKIR, judge; born in Brooklyn, NY, January 10, 1938;
married to Marna Tucker, two children; graduated magna cum laude,
Princeton University; A.B., Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs, 1959; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1962; Principal
Deputy General Counsel, Department of the Army, 1994-1998; private
practice and Editor-In-Chief, Military Law Reporter, 1981-1994;
Legislative Director to Senator Bill Bradley, 1979-1981; Deputy
Assistant Secretary (Legislation), Office of the Secretary, Department
of the Treasury, 1977-1979; Director, Vietnam Offender Study; Faculty
Fellow, University of Notre Dame Law School, 1975-1977; Director,
Presidential (Ford) Clemancy Board, White House, 1974-1975; Chief
Counsel, Subcommittees on Constitutional Rights and Separation of
Powers, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Sam J. Ervin, Chairman,
1967-1974; publications include Chance and Circumstances: The Draft, the
War and the Vietnam Generation; consultant to Information Intelligence
Committees, U.S. Congress; Adjunct Professor and Lecturer, Georgetown,
Notre Dame, Catholic Law Schools, and American University; appointed
judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on October 22, 1998; chief
judge, July 11, 2000 to May 10, 2002.
CHRISTINE ODELL COOK (O.C.) MILLER, judge; born in Oakland, CA,
August 26, 1944; married to Dennis F. Miller; B.A., Stanford University,
1966; J.D., University of Utah College of Law, 1969; Comment Editor,
Utah Law Review; Member, Utah Chapter Order of the Coif; Clerk to Chief
Judge David T. Lewis, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit; trial
attorney, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice; trial attorney,
Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Consumer Protection; Hogan and
Hartson, litigation section;
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Special Counsel; U.S. Railway
Association, Assistant General Counsel; Shack and Kimball P.C.,
litigation; member of the Bars of the State of California and District
of Columbia; Judge Miller was appointed by President Reagan on December
10, 1982, and confirmed as Christine Cook Nettsheim. She is a member of
the University Club and the Cosmos Club. Judge Miller was reappointed by
President Clinton on February 4, 1998.
MARIAN BLANK HORN, judge; born in New York, NY, 1943; daughter of
Werner P. and Mady R. Blank; married to Robert Jack Horn; three
daughters; attended Fieldston School, New York, NY, Barnard College,
Columbia University and Fordham University School of Law; admitted to
practice U.S. Supreme Court, 1973, Federal and State courts in New York,
1970, and Washington, DC, 1973; assistant district attorney, Deputy
Chief Appeals Bureau, Bronx County, NY, 1969-72; attorney, Arent, Fox,
Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn,
1972-73; adjunct professor of law, Washington College of Law, American
University,
1973-76; litigation attorney, Federal Energy Administration, 1975-76;
senior attorney, Office of General Counsel, Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Branch, Department of Energy, 1976-79;
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deputy assistant general counsel for procurement and financial
incentives, Department of
Energy, 1979-81; deputy associate solicitor, Division of Surface Mining,
Department of the Interior, 1981-83; associate solicitor, Division of
General Law, Department of the Interior,
1983-85; principal deputy solicitor and acting solicitor, Department of
Interior, 1985-86; adjunct professor of law, George Washington
University National Law Center, 1991-present; Woodrow Wilson Visiting
Fellow, 1994; assumed duties of judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims in
1986 and confirmed for a second term in 2003.
ROBERT HAYNE HODGES, Jr., judge; born in Columbia, SC, September 11,
1944, son of Robert Hayne and Mary (Lawton) Hodges; educated in the
public schools of
Columbia, SC; attended Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC; B.S.,
University of South
Carolina, 1966; J.D., University of South Carolina Law School, 1969;
married to Ruth
Nicholson (Lady) Hodges, August 23, 1963; three children; judge, U.S.
Court of Federal Claims, March 12, 1990.
DIANE GILBERT SYPOLT, judge; born June 14, 1947, in Rochester, NY;
daughter of Myron B. and Doris (Robie) Gilbert; married to Dwight D.
Sypolt, October, 1995; children: Andrew and David; B.A., Smith College,
1969; visiting student at Stanford University Law School and Georgetown
University Law Center, 1977-78; J.D., Boston University Law School,
1979; Boston University Alumnae Association Young Lawyers' Chair, 1989;
law clerk, Judge Catherine B. Kelly, District of Columbia Court of
Appeals, 1979-80; associate, Peabody, Lambert and Meyers, 1980-83;
Assistant General Counsel, Office of Management and Budget, Executive
Office of the President, 1983-86; Deputy General Counsel for
Departmental Services, U.S. Department of Education, 1986-88; Acting
General Counsel, U.S. Department of Education, 1988-89; Counselor to the
Vice President of the United States, Counsel to the
President's Competitiveness Council, 1989-90; nominated by President
Bush as judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, on July 31, 1990, entered
on duty October 22, 1990; admitted to the bars of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and the District of Columbia; Master of the Federal
American Inn of Court; Director, Federal Bar Association Affiliate
Democracy Development Institute.
LYNN J. BUSH, judge; born in Little Rock, AR, December 30, 1948;
daughter of John E. Bush III and Alice (Saville) Bush; one son, Brian
Bush Ferguson; B.A., Antioch College, 1970, Thomas J. Watson Fellow;
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1976; admitted to the Arkansas
Bar in 1976 and to the District of Columbia Bar in 1977; trial attorney,
Commercial Litigation Branch, Civil Division, U.S. Department of
Justice, 1976-1987; senior trial attorney, Naval Facilities Engineering
Command, Department of the Navy, 1987-1989; counsel, Engineering Field
Activity Chesapeake, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of
the Navy, 1989-1996; administrative judge, U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Development Board of Contract Appeals, 1996-1998; nominated by
President William Jefferson Clinton as judge, U.S. Court of Federal
Claims, June 22, 1998; and assumed duties of the office on October 26,
1998.
NANCY B. FIRESTONE, judge; born October 17, 1951, in Manchester, NH;
B.A., Washington University, 1973; J.D., University of Missouri, Kansas
City, 1977; one child: Amanda Leigh; attorney, Appellate Section and
Environmental Enforcement Section, U.S. Department of Justice,
Washington, D.C., 1977-1984; Assistant Chief, Policy Legislation and
Special Litigation, Environment and Natural Resources Division,
Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1984-1985; Deputy Chief,
Environmental Enforcement Section, Department of Justice, Washington,
D.C., 1985-1989; Associate Deputy Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 1989-1992; Judge, Environmental
Appeals Board, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 1992-
1995; Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural
Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1995-1998;
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1985-current;
judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, December 4, 1998.
EMILY CLARK HEWITT, judge; born in Baltimore, MD, May 26, 1944;
appointed
Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims on October 22, 1998;
entered duty on November 10, 1998; educated at the Roland Park Country
School, Baltimore, MD
(1949-1962); Cornell University (A.B. 1966); Union Theological Seminary
(M. Phil. 1975); Harvard Law School (J.D. c.1. 1978); ordained minister
in the Episcopal Church (diaconate 1972; priesthood 1974); member, Bar
of the Supreme Judicial Court of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
(1978); administrator, Cornell / Hofstra Upward Bound Program (1967-
1969); lecturer, Union Theological Seminary (1972-1973; 1974-1975);
assistant professor, Andover Newton Theological School (1973-1975);
private practice of law, Hill & Barlow
(1978-1993); council member, Real Property Section, Massachusetts Bar
Association
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(1983-1986); member, Executive Committee and chair, Practice Standards
Committee, Massachusetts Conveyancers Association (1990-1992); General
Counsel, U.S. General Services Administration (1993-1998); member,
Administrative Conference of the United States
(1993-1995); member, President's Interagency Council on Women (1995-
1998).
FRANCIS M. ALLEGRA, judge; born October 14, 1957, in Cleveland,
Ohio; married to Regina Allegra; one child (Domenic); B.A., Borromeo
College of Ohio, 1978; J.D., Cleveland State University, 1981; judicial
clerk to Chief Trial Judge Philip R. Miller, U.S. Court of Claims, 1981-
82; associate, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (Cleveland), 1982-84; line
attorney, Appellate Section, then 1984-89, Counselor to the Assistant
Attorney General, both with Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice;
1994, Counselor to the Associate Attorney General then 1994-98, Deputy
Associate Attorney General, both with the U.S. Department of Justice;
judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, since October 22, 1998.
LAWRENCE J. BLOCK, judge, born in New York City, March 15, 1951; son
of Jerome Block and Eve Silver; B.A., magna cum laude, New York
University, 1973; J.D., The John Marshall Law School, 1981; law clerk
for Hon. Roger J. Miner, United States District Court Judge for Northern
District of New York, 1981-83; Associate, New York office of Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, 1983-86; Attorney, Commercial Litigation
Branch, U.S. Department of Justice, 1986; Senior Attorney-Advisor,
Office of Legal Policy and Policy Development, U.S. Department of
Justice, 1987-90; adjunct professor, George Mason University School of
Law, 1990-91; acting general counsel for legal policy and deputy
assistant general counsel for legal policy, U.S. Department of Energy,
1990-94; senior counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee, 1994-02; appointed
by President George W. Bush on October 3, 2002, to a 15-years term as
judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims; admitted to the bar of Connecticut;
admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court, 1982, the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 1985, the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of New York, 1985, the United States District
Court for the northern district of New York, 1982.
SUSAN G. BRADEN, judge, born in Youngstown, OH, November 8, 1948,
married to Thomas M. Susman, daughter (Daily); graduated Case Western
Reserve University, B.A., 1970; Case Western Reserve University School
of Law, J.D., 1973; Post graduate study Harvard Law School, Summer,
1979. Private practice, 1985-2003 (1997-2003 Baker & McKenzie); Federal
Trade Commission: Special Counsel to Chairman, 1984-1985, Senior
Attorney Advisor to Commissioner and Acting Chairman, 1980-1983; U.S.
Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Senior Trial Attorney, Energy
Section, 1978-1980; Cleveland Field Office, 1973-1978. Special Assistant
Attorney General for the State of Alabama, 1990; Consultant to the
Administrative Conference of the United States, 1984-1985; 2000 Co-
Chair, Lawyers for Bush-Cheney; General Counsel Presidential Debate for
Dole-Kemp Campaign, 1996; Counsel to RNC Platform, 1996; Coordinator for
Regulatory Reform and Antitrust Policy, Dole Presidential Campaign,
1995-1996; National Steering Committee, Lawyers for Bush-Quayle, 1992;
Assistant General Counsel, Republican National Convention, 1988, 1992,
1996, 2000. Elected At-Large Member, D.C. Republican National Committee,
2000-2002; admitted to the Supreme Court of Ohio, 1973, U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia, 1980, U.S. Supreme Court, 1980; U.S.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, 1992; U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit, 2001. Member of the American Bar Association (Council
Member, Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, 1996-
1999), Federal Circuit Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar
Association, Computer Law Bar Association.
CHARLES F. LETTOW, judge, born in Iowa Falls, Iowa, February 10,
1941; son of Carl F. and Catherine Lettow; B.S.Ch.E. Iowa State
University, 1962; LL.B. Stanford University, 1968, Order of the Coif;
M.A. Brown University, 2001; Note Editor, Stanford Law Review; married
to B. Sue Lettow; children: Renee Burnett, Carl Frederick II, John
Stangland, and Paul Vorbeck; served U.S. Army, 1963-1965; law clerk to
Judge Ben C. Duniway, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1968-
1969, and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Supreme Court of the United
States, 1969-1970; counsel, Council on Environmental Quality, Executive
Office of the President, 1970-1973; associate (1973-1976) and partner
(1976-2003), Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Washington, DC;
admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of
Appeals for the D.C., Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth,
Ninth, Tenth, and Federal Circuits, the U.S. District Courts for the
District of Columbia, the Northern District of California, and the
District of Maryland, and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims; member:
American Law Institute, the American Bar Association, the D.C. Bar, the
California State Bar, the Iowa State Bar Association, and the Maryland
State Bar; nominated by President George W. Bush in 2001 and confirmed
and took
office in 2003.
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MARY ELLEN COSTER WILLIAMS, judge; born in Flushing, NY, April 3,
1953; married to Mark Calhoun Williams; son: Justin; daughter:
Jacquelyn; B.A. summa cum laude (Greek and Latin); MA (Latin), Catholic
University, 1974; J.D. Duke University; Editorial Board, Duke Law
Journal, 1976-1977; Admitted to the District of Columbia Bar. Associate,
Fulbright and Jaworski, 1977-1979; Associate, Schnader, Harrison, Segal
and Lewis, 1979-1983; Assistant U.S. Attorney, Civil Division, District
of Columbia, 1983-1987; Partner--Janis, Schuelke, and Wechsler, 1987-
1989; Administrative Judge, General Services Board of Contract Appeals
March, 1989-July, 2003; Secretary, District of Columbia Bar, 1988-1989;
Fellow, American Bar Foundation, Elected, 1985; Board of Directors, Bar
Association of District of Columbia, 1985-1988; Chairman, Young Lawyers
Section, Bar Association of District of Columbia, 1985-1986; Chair,
Public Contract Law Section of American Bar Association 2002-03,
Chair-Elect, Vice-Chair, Secretary, Council, 1995-2002; Delegate,
Section of Public Contract Law, ABA House of Delegates 2003-04;
Lecturer, Government Contract Law, 1989-Present.
VICTOR JOHN WOLSKI, judge; born in New Brunswick, NJ, November 14,
1962; son of Vito and Eugenia Wolski; B.A., B.S., University of
Pennsylvania, 1984; J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1991;
married to Lisa Wolski, June 3, 2000; admitted to Supreme Court of the
United States, 1995; California Supreme Court, 1992; Washington Supreme
Court, 1994; Oregon Supreme Court, 1996; District of Columbia Court of
Appeals, 2001; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1993; U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2001; U.S. District Court for
the Eastern District of California, 1993; U.S. District Court for the
Northern District of California, 1995; U.S. Court of Federal Claims,
2001; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2002; research
assistant, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1984-85;
research associate, Institute for Political Economy,
1985-88; Confidential Assistant and Speechwriter to the Secretary, U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture, 1988; paralegal specialist, Office of the General
Counsel, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1989; law clerk to Judge Vaughn R.
Walker, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California,
1991-92; attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation, 1992-97; General Counsel,
Sacramento County Republican Central Committee, 1995-97; Counsel to
Senator Connie Mack, Vice-Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, U.S.
Congress, 1997-98; General Counsel and Chief
Tax Adviser, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, 1999-2000;
associate, Cooper,
Carvin & Rosenthal, 2000-01; associate, Cooper & Kirk, 2001-03;
nominated by President George W. Bush as judge, U.S. Court of Federal
Claims, September 12, 2002, renominated January 7, 2003, confirmed by
U.S. Senate July 9, 2003.
SENIOR JUDGES
KENNETH R. HARKINS, senior judge; born in Cadiz, OH, September 1,
1921; educated in public schools of Zandesville, OH; Ohio State
University, B.A. (economics), 1943; LL.B., 1948; J.D., 1967; admitted to
practice of law in Ohio, April, 1949; married to Helen Mae Dozer, 1942;
children: M. Elaine and Richard A.; U.S. Army active duty, July, 1943 to
June, 1946, 500 AFA Battalion, 14th Armored Division, private to 1st
lieutenant; attorney, U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency, 1949-51;
trial attorney, Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, 1951-55;
cocounsel, Antitrust Subcommittee, Judiciary Committee, House of
Representatives, 1955-60; general counsel, Stromberg Carlson Division
and Electronics Division, General Dynamics Corp., 1960-64; chief
counsel, Antitrust Subcommittee, Judiciary Committee, House of
Representatives, 1964-71; commissioner (trial judge), U.S. Court of
Claims, 1971-82; judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1982-86, pursuant
to Public Law 97-164, section 167(a), October 1, 1982 through November
30, 1986. Recalled to active service in senior status pursuant to 28
U.S.C., section 797, December 1, 1986; senior judge, 1986-present.
THOMAS J. LYDON, senior judge; born June 3, 1927 in Portland, ME;
educated in the parochial and public schools in Portland; attended
University of Maine, 1948-52, B.A.; Georgetown University Law Center,
1952-55, LL.B., 1956-57, LL.M.; trial attorney, Civil Division,
Department of Justice, 1955-67; Chief, Court of Claims Section, Civil
Division, 1967-72; trial commissioner (trial judge), U.S. Court of
Claims, 1972 to September 30, 1982; judge, U.S. Claims Court, October 1,
1982-July 31, 1987; senior judge, August 1, 1987-present.
JAMES F. MEROW, senior judge; born in Salamanca, NY, March 16, 1932;
educated in the public schools of Little Valley, NY and Alexandria, VA;
A.B. (with distinction), The George Washington University, 1953; J.D.
(with distinction), The George Washington University Law School, 1956;
member: Phi Beta Kappa, Order of the Coif, Omicron Delta
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Kappa; officer, U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, 1956-59; trial
attorney-branch director, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice,
1959-78; trial judge, U.S. Court of Claims, 1978-82; judge, U.S. Court
of Federal Claims since October 1, 1982 (reappointed by President Reagan
to a 15-year term commencing August 5, 1983); member of Virginia State
Bar, District of Columbia Bar, American Bar Association, and Federal Bar
Association; married.
REGINALD W. GIBSON, senior judge; born in Lynchburg, VA, July 31,
1927; son of McCoy and Julia Gibson; son, Reginald S. Gibson, Jr.;
educated in the public schools
of Washington, DC; served in the U.S. Army, 1946-47; B.S., Virginia
Union University,
1952; Wharton Graduate School of Business Administration, University of
Pennsylvania,
1952-53; LL.B., Howard University School of Law, 1956; admitted to the
District of Columbia Bar in 1957 and to the Illinois Bar in 1972;
Internal Revenue agent, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC, 1957-
61; trial attorney, tax division, criminal section, Department of
Justice, Washington, DC, 1961-71; senior and later general tax attorney,
International Harvester Co., Chicago, IL, 1971-82; judge, U.S. Court of
Federal Claims, December 15, 1982-August 15, 1995; senior status, August
15, 1995-present.
JOHN PAUL WIESE, senior judge; born in Brooklyn, NY, April 19, 1934;
son of Gustav and Margaret Wiese; B.A., cum laude, Hobart College, 1962,
Phi Beta Kappa; LL.B., University of Virginia School of Law, 1965;
married to Alice Mary Donoghue, June, 1961; one son, John Patrick;
served U.S. Army, 1957-59; law clerk: U.S. Court of Claims, trial
division, 1965-66, and Judge Linton M. Collins, U.S. Court of Claims,
appellate division,
1966-67; private practice in District of Columbia, 1967-74 (specializing
in government contract litigation); trial judge, U.S. Court of Claims,
1974-82; designated in Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982 as judge,
U.S. Court of Federal Claims, reappointed by President Reagan on October
14, 1986, to 15-year term as judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims;
admitted to bar of the District of Columbia, 1966; admitted to practice
in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims; member: District of Columbia
Bar Association and American Bar Association.
ROBERT J. YOCK, senior judge; born in St. James, MN, January 11,
1938; son of Dr. William J. and Erma Yock; B.A. St. Olaf College, 1959;
J.D. University of Michigan Law School, 1962; married to Carla M. Moen,
June 13, 1964; children: Signe Kara and Torunn Ingrid; admitted to the
Minnesota Supreme Court in 1962; Court of Military Appeals, 1964; U.S.
Supreme Court, 1965; U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota,
1966; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1972; U.S. Court
of Claims, 1979; and U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1982; member:
Minnesota State Bar Association, and District of Columbia Bar
Association; served in the U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General's Corps,
1962-66; private practice, St. Paul, MN, 1966-69; entered Government
service as chief counsel to the National Archives and Record Services of
the General Services Administration,
1969-70; executive assistant and legal advisor to the Administrator of
General Services, 1970-72; assistant general counsel at GSA, 1972-77;
trial judge, U.S. Court of
Claims, 1977-82; designated by Public Law 97-164 as judge, U.S. Court of
Federal Claims, 1982-83; renominated by President Reagan as judge, U.S.
Court of Federal Claims,
June 20, 1983, confirmed by U.S. Senate, August 4, 1983, reappointed to
15-year term,
August 5, 1983.
LAWRENCE S. MARGOLIS, senior judge; born in Philadelphia, PA, March
13, 1935; son of Reuben and Mollie Margolis; B.A., Central High School,
Philadelphia, PA; B.S. in mechanical engineering from the Drexel
Institute of Technology (now Drexel University), 1957; J.D., George
Washington University Law School, 1961; admitted to the District of
Columbia Bar; patent examiner, U.S. Patent Office, 1957-62; patent
counsel, Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, MD, 1962-63; assistant
corporation counsel for the District of Columbia, 1963-66; attorney,
criminal division, U.S. Department of Justice and special assistant U.S.
attorney for District of Columbia, 1966-68; assistant U.S. attorney for
the District of Columbia, 1968-71; appointed U.S. magistrate for
District of Columbia in 1971; reappointed for a second 8-year term in
1979 and served until December, 1982 when appointed a judge, U.S. Court
of Federal Claims; chairman, U.S. Court of Federal Claims: Security
Committee, Building Committee, and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Committee; chairman, American Bar Association, judicial administration
division, 1980-81; chairman, National Conference of Special Court
Judges, 1977-78; board of directors, Bar Association of the District of
Columbia, 1970-72; editor: DC Bar Journal, 1966-73, Young Lawyers
Newspaper editor, 1965-66; executive council, Young Lawyers Section,
1968-69; board of editors, The Judges' Journal and The District Lawyer;
president, George Washington University National Law Association, 1983-
84; president, George Washington Law Association, District of Columbia
Chapter,
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1975-76; board of governors, George Washington University General Alumni
Association, 1978-85; fellow, Institute of Judicial Administration,
1993 ; member, District of Columbia Judicial Conference; former member,
board of directors, National Council of U.S. Magistrates; former
president, Federal Bar Toastmasters; former technical editor, Federal
Bar Journal; faculty, Federal Judicial Center; trustee, Drexel
University, 1983-91; member, Rotary Club; Board of Managers, Central
High (Philadelphia, PA); president, Washington, D.C. Rotary Club, 1988-
89, District governor, 1991-92; American Bar Association Judicial
Administration Division Award for distinguished service as chairman for
1980-81; Drexel University and George Washington University
Distinguished Alumni Achievement Awards; Drexel University 100 (one of
top 100 graduates); Center for Public Resources Alternative Dispute
Resolution Achievement Award, 1987; George Washington University
Community Service Award; married to Doris May Rosenberg, January 30,
1960; children: Mary Aleta and Paul Oliver; nominated by President
Ronald Reagan as a judge on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on
September 27, 1982, confirmed by the Senate and received Commission on
December 10, 1982, took oath of office on December 15, 1982.
MOODY R. TIDWELL III, senior judge; born in Miami, OK, February 15,
1939; son of Maj. Gen. M.R. Tidwell, Jr., and Dorothy (Thompson)
Tidwell; married to Rena C. Tidwell; children: Gregory T. and Jeremy H.;
B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University, 1961; J.D., Washington College of Law,
American University; LL.M., National Law Center, George Washington
University; admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia; admitted to
practice in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and various other
circuit and U.S. district courts; attorney, General Accounting Office,
1965-69; associate solicitor, Divisions of General Law and Energy and
Resources, Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior,
1969-77; staff director and vice chairman, Commission on Government
Procurement, 1971-73; Associate Solicitor, Mine Safety and Health,
Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of Labor, 1977-80; corporate
secretary and board member, Keco Industries, Inc., 1979-82; deputy
solicitor and counselor to the Secretary of the Interior, 1980-83;
appointed and confirmed by the President as judge in the U.S. Court of
Federal Claims, May 17, 1983.
LOREN ALLAN SMITH, senior judge; born December 22, 1944, in Chicago,
IL; son of Alvin D. and Selma (Halpern) Smith; B.A., Northwestern
University, 1966; J.D., Northwestern University School of Law, 1969;
admitted to the Bars of the Illinois Supreme Court; the Court of
Military Appeals; the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia
Circuit; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; the U.S.
Supreme Court; the U.S. Court of Federal Claims; honorary member: The
University Club; consultant, Sidley and Austin Chicago, 1972-73; general
attorney, Federal Communications Commission, 1973; assistant to the
Special Counsel to the President, 1973-74; Special Assistant U.S.
Attorney, District of Columbia, 1974-75; chief counsel, Reagan for
President campaigns, 1976 and 1980; professor, Delaware Law School,
1976-84; distinguished lecturer at Columbus School of Law, The Catholic
University of America and distinguished adjunct professor at George
Mason University School of Law; deputy director, Executive Branch
Management Office of Presidential Transition, 1980-81; Chairman,
Administrative Conference of the Unites States, 1981-85; served as a
member of the President's Cabinet Councils on Legal Policy and on
Management and Administration; appointed judge of the U.S. Court of
Federal Claims on July 11, 1985; entered on duty September 12, 1985;
served as chief judge from
January 14, 1986, until July 11, 2000; married.
ERIC G. BRUGGINK, senior judge; born in Kalidjati, Indonesia,
September 11, 1949; naturalized U.S. citizen, 1961; married to Melinda
Harris Bruggink; sons: John and David; B.A., cum laude (sociology),
Auburn University, AL, 1971; M.A. (speech), 1972; J.D., University of
Alabama, 1975; Hugo Black Scholar and Note and Comments Editor of
Alabama Law Review; member, Alabama State Bar and District of Columbia
Bar; served as law clerk to chief judge Frank H. McFadden, Northern
District of Alabama, 1975-76; associate, Hardwick, Hause and Segrest,
Dothan, AL, 1976-77; assistant director, Alabama Law Institute, 1977-79;
director, Office of Energy and Environmental Law, 1977-79; associate,
Steiner, Crum and Baker, Montgomery, AL, 1979-82; Director, Office of
Appeals Counsel, Merit Systems Protection Board, 1982-86; judge, U.S.
Court of Federal Claims, April 15, 1986.
WILKES COLEMAN ROBINSON, senior judge; born September 30, 1925 in
Anniston, AL; B.A., University of Alabama, 1948; J.D., University of
Virginia, 1951 member: Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Eta Sigma, Phi Alpha Theta,
Kappa Alpha fraternity; associate attorney, Bibb and Hemphill, Anniston,
AL, 1953-55; city recorder of Anniston, AL, 1953-55; judge, Juvenile and
Domestic Relations Court, Calhoun County, AL, 1954-56; attorney: Gulf,
Mobile and Ohio Railroad, 1956-58; asst. gen'l. attorney, Seaboard
Airline Railroad Company,
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1958-66; chief commerce counsel, Monsanto Company, 1966-70; vice
president and general counsel, Marion Laboratories, Inc., 1970-80;
president and member of board of directors, Gulf and Great Plains Legal
Foundation, 1980-85; vice president and general counsel, S.R. Financial
Group, Inc., 1986-87; judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, assumed
duties July 10, 1987; member: Alabama State Bar, Virginia State Bar,
Missouri State Bar, Kansas State Bar, U.S. Supreme Court Bar, Tenth
Circuit Court of Appeals, Alabama and Missouri U.S. District Courts,
U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar; married to Julia Von P. Rowan; three
children: Randolph C., Peyton H. and T. Wilkes C. Robinson.
BOHDAN A. FUTEY, senior judge; born in Ukraine, June 28, 1939; B.A.,
Western Reserve University, 1962; M.A., 1964; J.D., Cleveland Marshall
Law School, 1968; partner, Futey and Rakowsky, 1968-72; chief assistant
police prosecutor, city of Cleveland, 1972-74; executive assistant to
the mayor of Cleveland, 1974-75; partner, Bazarko, Futey and
Oryshkewych, 1975-84; chairman, U.S. Foreign Claims Settlement
Commission, May, 1984-87; nominated judge of the U.S. Court of Federal
Claims on January 30, 1987, and entered on duty, May 29, 1987; married
to the former Myra Fur; three children: Andrew, Lidia, and Daria;
member: District of Columbia Bar Association, the Ukrainian American Bar
Association; Judge Futey is actively involved with Democratization and
Rule of Law programs organized by the Judicial Conference of the United
States, the Department of State, and the American Bar Association in
Ukraine and Russia. He has participated in judicial exchange programs,
seminars, and workshops and has been a consultant to the working group
on Ukraine's Constitution and Ukrainian Parliament; Judge Futey is an
advisor to the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES); and
the International Republican Institutes (IRI) democracy programs for
Ukraine. He served as an official observer during the parliamentary and
presidential elections in 1994 and 1998 and conducted briefings on
Ukraine's election law for international observers; Judge Futey has
lectured on Constitutional Law at the Ukrainian Free University in
Munich and Passau University, Germany; also at Kyiv State University and
Lviv University in Ukraine.
JAMES T. TURNER, senior judge; born March 12, 1938, in Clifton
Forge, VA; B.A., Wake Forest University, 1960; LL.B., University of
Virginia Law School, 1965; private practice of law, Williams, Worrell,
Kelly and Greer, 1965-79; U.S. Magistrate for the eastern district of
Virginia, 1979-87; president, National Council of U.S. Magistrates,
1984-85; judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims since July 2, 1987; member
of the American Bar Association, Virginia Bar Association, Virginia
State Bar, Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association.
Officers of the United States Court of Federal Claims
Clerk.--Margaret M. Earnest, (202) 219-9657
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UNITED STATES TAX COURT
400 Second Street 20217, phone (202) 606-8754
THOMAS B. WELLS, chief judge; born Akron, OH, July 2, 1945; married
Mary Josephine Graham of Vidalia, GA in 1974; children: Kathryn and
Graham; received B.S. degree from Miami University, Oxford, OH in 1967;
J.D. degree from Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA in 1973;
LL.M. degree (in Taxation) from New York University Graduate School of
Law, New York, NY in 1978; attended Ohio Northern University School of
Law, Ada, OH, served as managing editor of the law review until he
transferred to Emory University School of Law in 1972; completed active
duty in 1970 as a supply corps officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve after
tours in Morocco and Vietnam; admitted to the practice of law in the
State of Georgia and practiced law in Vidalia, GA with the law firm of
Graham and Wells, P.C., served as county attorney for Toombs County, GA
and city attorney for the city of Vidalia, GA until 1977, and in Atlanta
with the law firm of Hurt, Richardson, Garner, Todd and Cadenhead until
1981 and with the law firm of Shearer and Wells, P.C. until his
appointment to the U.S. Tax Court in 1986; member; American Bar
Association (section of taxation); State Bar of Georgia, served as a
member of its Board of Governors; Board of Editors of the Georgia State
Bar Journal; active in the Atlanta Bar Association, served as editor of
The Atlanta Lawyer; active in various tax organizations such as the
Atlanta Tax Forum; the Atlanta Estate Planning Council, served as a
director; and the North Atlanta Tax Council, served as a director;
nominated by President Reagan and confirmed by the Senate as a judge of
the U.S. Tax Court for a term of 15 years beginning October 12, 1986 to
succeed Judge Richard C. Wilbur who retired.
MARY ANN COHEN, judge, California; born July 16, 1943, Albuquerque,
NM; B.A., University of California at Los Angeles, 1964; J.D.,
University of Southern California, 1967; admitted to California Bar,
1967; private practice of law, Los Angeles, with firm of Abbott and
Cohen, a professional corporation (and predecessors), 1967-82; member:
American Bar Association (sections of taxation, litigation, and criminal
justice), American Judicature Society, Attorney General's Advisory
Committee on Tax Litigation, U.S. Department of Justice
(1979-80); appointed to U.S. Tax Court, July 1982 to succeed Cynthia H.
Hall; term expires September 24, 1997.
STEPHEN J. SWIFT, judge, California; born September 7, 1943, Salt
Lake City, UT, son of Edward A. Swift and Maurine Jensen; married to
Lorraine Burnell Facer, 1972; children: Carter, Stephanie, Spencer,
Meredith, and Hunter; graduated, Menlo Atherton High School, Atherton,
CA, 1961; B.A., Brigham Young University, political science, 1967;
George Washington Law School, J.D. (with honors), 1970; trial attorney
(honors program), tax division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1970-74;
assistant U.S. attorney, tax division, U.S. attorney's office, San
Francisco, CA 1974-77; vice president and senior tax counsel, tax
department, BankAmerica N.T. and S.A., San Francisco, CA, 1977-83;
adjunct professor, Graduate Tax Program, Golden Gate University, San
Francisco, CA 1978-83; member: California Bar,
District of Columbia Bar, and American Bar Association (section of
taxation); appointed
August 16, 1983 to the U.S. Tax Court for a 15-year term expiring August
16, 1998.
JOEL GERBER, judge, Virginia; born in Chicago, IL, July 16, 1940;
married to Judith Smilgoff, 1963; three sons: Jay Lawrence, Jeffrey
Mark, and Jon Victor; B.S., business administration, Roosevelt
University, 1962; J.D., DePaul University, 1965; LL.M., taxation, Boston
University Law School, 1968; admitted to the Illinois Bar, 1965; Georgia
Bar, 1974; Tennessee Bar, 1978; member American Bar Association (section
of taxation); served with U.S. Treasury Department, Internal Revenue
Service as: trial attorney, Boston, MA,
1965-72; staff assistant, regional counsel / senior trial attorney,
Atlanta, GA, 1972-76; district counsel, Nashville, TN, 1976-80; deputy
chief counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC, 1980-84; acting
chief counsel, Internal Revenue Service, May 1983 to March 1984;
recipient of a Presidential Meritorious Rank Award, 1983 and the
Secretary of the Treasury's
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Exceptional Service Award, 1984; lecturer, law, Vanderbilt University,
1976-80; appointed to the Tax Court for a 15-year term, beginning June
18, 1984, to succeed Senior Judge C. Moxley Featherston.
ROBERT PAUL RUWE, judge, Virginia; born July 3, 1941, Cincinnati,
Ohio; married to Mary Kay Sayer, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1967; children: Paul,
Michael, Christian, and Stephen; graduated Roger Bacon High School, St.
Bernard, OH, 1959, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, 1963; J.D., Salmon
P. Chase College of Law, 1970; admitted to Ohio bar, 1970; joined Office
of Chief Counsel, Internal Revenue Service in 1970 and held the
following positions, Trial Attorney (Indianapolis), Director, Criminal
Tax Division, Deputy Associate Chief Counsel (Litigation), and Director,
Tax Litigation Division; member, American Bar Association (Section of
taxation); took oath of office as a judge of the U.S. Tax Court,
November 20, 1987 for a 15-year term to succeed Judge Charles R.
Simpson.
JOHN O. COLVIN, judge, Virginia; born November 17, 1946, Canton, OH;
married Ava M. Belohlov in 1970; one son: Timothy; graduated from the
University of Missouri (A.B., 1968), and Georgetown University Law
Center (J.D., Masters of Law in Taxation, 1978). During college and law
school, employed by Niedner, Niedner, Nack and Bodeux, St. Charles, MO;
Missouri Attorney General John C. Danforth and Missouri State
Representative Richard C. Marshall, Jefferson City, MO; and U.S. Senator
Mark O. Hatfield and Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, Washington, DC;
admitted to the practice of law in Missouri, 1971 and District of
Columbia, 1974. Office of the Chief Counsel, U.S. Coast Guard,
Washington, DC,
1971-75; served as tax counsel, Senator Bob Packwood, 1975-84; chief
counsel, 1985-87, and chief minority counsel, 1987-88, U.S. Senate
Finance Committee; officer of the Tax Section, Federal Bar Association
since 1978, and adjunct professor of law, Georgetown University Law
Center since 1987. Numerous civic and community activities; Judge Colvin
was nominated by President Reagan and confirmed by the Senate as a Judge
of the U.S. Tax Court for a term of 15 years beginning September 1, 1988
and expiring August 31, 2003. Judge Colvin filled a vacancy due to the
resignation of Judge Samuel B. Sterrett.
JAMES S. HALPERN, judge, District of Columbia; born 1945, New York
City; married to Nancy A. Nord; two children: W. Dyer and Hilary Ann;
graduated from Hackley School, Terrytown, New York, 1963; Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania, B.S. 1967; Law School, University of
Pennsylvania, J.D., 1972; Law School, New York University, LL.M. (in
taxation) 1975; associate attorney, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander,
New York City, 1972-74; assistant professor of law, Law School,
Washington and Lee University,
1975-76; assistant professor of law, St. John's University, New York
City, 1976-78, visiting professor, Law School, New York University,
1978-79; associate attorney, Roberts and Holland, New York City, 1979-
80; Principal Technical Advisor, Assistant Commissioner (Technical) and
Associate Chief Counsel (Technical), Internal Revenue Service,
Washington, DC,
1980-83; partner, Baker and Hostetler, Washington, DC, 1983-90; adjunct
professor, Law School, George Washington University, Washington, DC,
1984-90; Colonel, U.S. Army Reserves; appointed to the U.S. Tax Court on
July 3, 1990.
CAROLYN P. CHIECHI, judge, Maryland; born December 6, 1943, Newark,
New Jersey; B.S., Georgetown, University, Washington, DC, magna cum
laude, 1965 (Class Rank: 1); J.D., 1969 (Class Rank: 9); LL.M.
(Taxation), 1971; admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, 1969;
served as attorney-advisor to Judge Leo H. Irwin, United States Tax
Court, 1969-1971; practiced with the law firm of Sutherland, Asbill and
Brennan, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta, Georgia (partner, 1976-1992;
associate, 1971-1976); member, District of Columbia Bar (served as
taxation section Tax Audits and Litigation Committee chairperson, 1987-
1988); American Bar Association (Section of Taxation); Federal Bar
Association (Section of Taxation); Women's Bar Association of the
District of Columbia; elected fellow, American College of Tax Counsel;
fellow, American Bar Foundation; member, Board of Regents, Georgetown
University; member, National Law Alumni Board, Georgetown University;
member, Stuart Stiller Memorial Foundation; appointed by the President
to the U.S. Tax Court for a 15-year term beginning October 1, 1992.
DAVID LARO, judge, Michigan; born Flint, MI, March 3, 1942; married
to the former Nancy Lynn Wolf on June 18, 1967; two children: Rachel
Lynn and Marlene Ellen; graduated from the University of Michigan in
1964 with a B.A.; the University of Illinois Law School in 1967 with a
J.D.; and New York University Law School in 1970 with an LL.M. in
taxation; admitted to the bar of Michigan in 1968 and the United States
District Court
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(Eastern District) Michigan in 1968, United States Tax Court, 1971;
former partner of Winegarden, Booth, Shedd, and Laro, Flint, MI, 1970-
75; principal member, Laro and Borgeson, Flint, MI, 1975-86; principal
member, David Laro, Attorney at Law, P.C., Flint, MI, 1986-92; of
counsel to Dykema Gossett, Ann Arbor, MI, 1989-90; former president and
chief executive officer of Durakon Industries, Inc., Lapeer, MI, 1989-
91, and former chairman of the board of Durakon Industries, Inc., 1991-
92; former chairman of the board of Republic Bank, Ann Arbor, MI, 1986-
92, and vice chairman and co-founder of Republic Bancorp, Inc., Ann
Arbor, MI, 1986-92. Regent, University of Michigan Board of Regents, Ann
Arbor, MI, 1975-81; former member of the Michigan State Board of
Education,
1982-83; former chairman of the Michigan State Tenure Commission, 1972-
75; former commissioner, Civil Service Commission, Flint, MI, 1984-1985.
Former Commissioner of Police, Flint Township, 1972-74; former member of
the Political Leadership Program, the Institute for Public Policy and
Social Research, Lansing, MI; frequent speaker and lecturer on tax
matters for the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants,
and the Michigan Institute of Continuing Legal Education and other
professional and business groups and organizations; author of numerous
articles on taxation; former member of the Ann Arbor Art Association
Board of Directors, board member of the Holocaust Foundation (Ann
Arbor); appointed to the Tax Court for a 15-year term beginning November
2, 1992, to fill vacancy created by Judge Jules G. Korner III, who
assumed senior status.
MAURICE B. FOLEY, judge, Illinois; born March 28, 1960, Belleville,
Illinois; married Cassandra LaNel Green; three children: Malcolm,
Corinne, and Nathan; received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Swarthmore
College, a Juris Doctor from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University
of California at Berkeley, and a Master of Laws in Taxation from
Georgetown University Law Center; prior to the appointment to the Court
was an attorney for the Legislation and Regulations Division of the
Internal Revenue Service, tax counsel for the United States Senate
Committee on Finance and Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel in the
Treasury's Office of Tax Policy; appointed to the Tax Court for a 15-
year term beginning April 10, 1995 to succeed Judge Charles E. Clapp,
II.
JUAN F. VASQUEZ, judge, Texas; born in San Antonio, TX on June 24,
1948; married to Mary Theresa (Terry) Schultz in 1970; two children:
Juan, Jr. and Jaime; attended Fox Tech High School and San Antonio
Junior College, A.D. (Data Processing); received B.B.A (Accounting) from
the University of Texas in Austin in 1972; attended State University of
New York in Buffalo, 1st year law school in 1975; graduate of University
of Houston Law Center in 1977 with a J.D. and New York University Law
School in 1978 with an LL.M. in Taxation. Certified in Tax Law by Texas
Board of Legal Specialization in 1984; Certified Public Account
Certificate from Texas in 1976 and California in 1974; admitted to the
bar of Texas in 1977; United States Tax Court in 1978, United States
District Court, Southern District of Texas in 1982 and Western District
of Texas in 1985, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1982; private
practice of Tax Law, 1987-April 1995; partner, Leighton, Hood and
Vasquez, 1982-87, San Antonio, Texas; Trial Attorney, Office of Chief
Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, Houston, TX, 1978-82; accountant,
Coopers and Lybrand, Los Angeles, California, 1972-74; member American
Bar Association (Tax Section); Texas State Bar (Tax and Probate
Sections); Fellow of Texas and San Antonio Bar Foundations, Mexican
American Bar Association (MABA) of San Antonio (Treasurer); Houston
MABA; Texas MABA (Treasurer), National Association of Hispanic CPA's;
San Antonio Chapter (founding member), College of State Bar of Texas,
National Hispanic Bar Association, Member of Greater Austin Tax
Litigation Association; served on Austin Internal Revenue Service
District Director's Practitioner Liaison Committee, 1990-91, chairman,
1991; Judge Vasquez was
nominated by President Clinton on September 14, 1994, and confirmed by
the Senate on
March 17, 1995, as a Judge of the United States Tax Court for a term of
15 years beginning on May 1, 1995 to succeed Judge Perry Shields who
took senior status.
JOSEPH H. GALE, judge, Virginia; born August 26, 1953, in
Smithfield, VA; received A.B., Philosophy, Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey, 1976; J.D., University of Virginia School of Law,
Charlottesville, VA, 1980, where he was a Dillard Fellow; practiced law
as an associate attorney at Dewey Ballantine, Washington, DC, and New
York, New York, 1980-83, and Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin, Washington,
DC, 1983-85; served as Tax Legislative Counsel for Senator Daniel
Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), 1985-88; administrative assistant and Tax
Legislative Counsel, 1989; chief counsel, 1990-93; chief tax counsel,
Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate, 1993-95; minority chief tax counsel,
Senate Finance Committee, January 1995-July 1995; minority staff
director and chief counsel, Senate Finance Committee, July 1995-January
1996; admitted to the District of Columbia Bar; member: American Bar
Association, Section of Taxation; frequent speaker at professional
conferences
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and seminars on various Federal income tax topics; appointed to Tax
Court for a 15-year term beginning February 9, 1996, to succeed Judge
Edna G. Parker, who assumed
senior status.
MICHAEL B. THORNTON, judge; born February 9, 1954, in Hattiesburg,
Mississippi. Married Alexandra Deane Thornton in 1992 and has two
daughters, Michaela and Camille. Graduated from University of Southern
Mississippi, B.S. in Accounting, summa cum laude, 1976, and M.S. in
Accounting, 1997; University of Tennessee, M.A. in English Literature,
1979; Duke University School of Law, J.D. with distinction, 1982 (Order
of the Coif, Duke Law Journal Editorial Board). Served as law clerk to
the Honorable Charles Clark, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Fifth Circuit (1983-1984). Practiced law as an Associate Attorney at
Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan, Washington, D.C. (1982-1983 and summer
1981); and Miller and Chevalier, Chartered, Washington, D.C. (1985-
1988). Served as Tax Counsel, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means
(1988-1993); Chief Minority Tax Counsel, U.S. House Committee on Ways
and means (January 1995); Attorney-Adviser, U.S. Treasury Department
(February-April 1995); and Deputy Tax Legislative Counsel (Tax
Legislation) in the Office of Tax Policy, United States Treasury
Department (April 1995-February 1998). Recipient of Treasury Secretary's
Annual Award, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1997; Meritorious Service
Award, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 1998. Admitted to the District
of Columbia Bar (1982). Appointed to the Tax Court for a 15-year term
beginning March 8, 1998, to succeed Judge Lapsley W. Hamblen, Jr., who
assumed senior status.
L. PAIGE MARVEL, judge, Baltimore, Maryland; born December 6, 1949,
in Easton, Maryland. Education: College of Notre Dame, Baltimore,
Maryland, B.A. magna cum laude, 1971; University of Maryland School of
Law, Baltimore, Maryland, J.D. with honors, 1974. Member, Order of the
Coif. Professional Experience: Garbis & Schwait, PA (Associate
1974-76; Shareholder 1976-1985); Garbis, Marvel & Junghans, PA
(Shareholder 1985-1986); Melnicove, Kaufman, Weiner, Smouse & Garbis, PA
(Shareholder 1986-1988); Venabel, Baetjer & Howard LLP (Partner 1988-
1998). Practice concentrated in the areas of federal and state tax
litigation (civil and criminal). Bar Associations: American Bar
Association, Section of Taxation (Vice-Chair, Committee Operations 1993-
95; Council Director
1989-92; Chair, Court Procedure Committee 1985-87); Maryland State Bar
Association (Member, Board of Governors 1988-90, 1996-98; Chair,
Taxation Section 1982-83); Federal Bar Association, Section of Taxation
(Member, Section Council). Affiliations: Fellow, American Bar
Foundation; Fellow, Maryland Bar Foundation; Fellow and Regent, American
College of Tax Counsel; Member, American Law Institute; Advisor, ALI
Restatement of Law Third-The Law Governing Lawyers 1988-1998; Member,
University of Maryland Board of Visitors; Member, Loyola / Notre Dame
Library, Inc. Board of Trustees; Co-editor, Procedure Department, The
Journal of Taxation 1990-1998; member, Commissioner's Review Panel on
IRS Integrity 1989-91; Member and Chair, Procedure Subcommittee,
Commission to Revise the Annotated Code of Maryland; (Tax Provisions).
Author of various articles and book chapters on tax and tax litigation
topics. Frequent lecturer on tax and tax controversy topics. Married to
Robert H. Dyer, Jr.; two children--Alex and Kelly Dyer. Appointed to the
Tax Court for a 15-year term beginning April 6, 1998 to succeed Judge
Lawrence A. Wright who assumed senior status.
HARRY A. HAINES, judge, Montana; married to the former Janet Meyers;
three children: Eric, Rob, and Jeanne; B.A., St. Olaf College in
Northfield, Minnesota; J.D., University of Montana Law School; LL.M.,
New York University School of Law, in taxation; practiced law with the
firm of Worden, Thane & Haines, P.C., in Missoula, Montana; appointed
April 22, 2003 as a judge of the United States Tax Court; appointed by
President George W. Bush to the Tax Court for a 15-year term to succeed
Judge Renato Beghe who assumed senior status.
JOSEPH ROBERT GOEKE, judge, Illinois; married to the former Linda
Powers; three children: Robert, Benjamin, and Elizabeth; B.S., Xavier
University in Cincinnati, OH; J.D., University of Kentucky College of
Law; initially, with the Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service
and since 1998 with Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw in Chicago; appointed
April 22, 2003 as a judge of the United States Tax Court; appointed by
President George W. Bush to the Tax Court for a 15-year term to succeed
Judge Herbert L. Chabot who assumed senior status.
ROBERT A. WHERRY, Jr., judge, Colorado; married to the former Leslie
Ross; two children: Richard and Marsha; B.S., J.D., University of
Colorado at Boulder; LL.M., New
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York University in taxation; practiced law for 30 years with Lentz,
Evans, and King, P.C., in Denver, Colorado; appointed April 23, 2003, as
a judge of the United States Tax Court; appointed by President George W.
Bush to the Tax Court for a 15-year term to succeed Judge Laurence J.
Whalen who assumed senior status.
SENIOR JUDGES
HOWARD A. DAWSON, Jr., senior judge, Arkansas; born October 23,
1922, Okolona, AR, married to Marianne Atherholt; two daughters, Amy and
Suzanne; graduated from University of North Carolina, B.S. in business
administration, 1946; George Washington University Law School, J.D. with
honors, 1949; president, Case Club; secretary-treasurer, Student Bar
Association; private practice of law, Washington, DC, 1949-50; served
with the U.S. Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, as follows:
attorney, civil division, Office of Chief Counsel, 1950-53; civil
advisory counsel, Atlanta District, 1953-57; regional counsel, Atlanta
Region, 1958; personal assistant to Chief Counsel, December 1, 1958 to
June 1, 1959; and assistant chief counsel (administration), June 1, 1959
to August 19, 1962; military service: U.S. Army Finance Corps, 1942-45;
served 2 years in European theater; captain, Finance Corps, U.S. Army
Reserve; member of District of Columbia Bar, Georgia Bar, American Bar
Association (Section of Taxation), Federal Bar Association, National
Lawyers Club, Delta Theta Phi Legal Fraternity, George Washington
University Law Alumni Association; appointed on August 21, 1962, to the
U.S. Tax Court for term expiring June 1, 1970; reappointed on May 21,
1970, to the U.S. Tax Court for a 15-year term expiring June 1, 1985;
elected chief judge for a 2-year term beginning July 1, 1973; reelected
chief judge for a 2-year term beginning July 1, 1975; again elected
chief judge for a 2-year term beginning July 1, 1983. Assumed status as
a senior judge on June 2, 1985. David L. Brennan Distinguished Visiting
Professor of Law, University of Akron School of Law, spring term, 1986,
professor of law and director, Graduate Tax Program, University of
Baltimore School of Law, 1986-89; presently serving on senior status.
ARTHUR L. NIMS III, senior judge, New Jersey; elected chief judge
for a 2-year term beginning June 1, 1988, re-elected chief judge
beginning June 1, 1990; born January 3, 1923, Oklahoma City, OK; married
to Nancy Chloe Keyes; two daughters; Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA;
B.A., Williams College; LL.B., University of Georgia Law School; LL.M.
(Tax), New York University Law School; served as an officer, lieutenant
(jg.), U.S. Naval Reserve, on active duty in the Pacific theater during
World War II; admitted to the bar of Georgia, 1949; and practiced in
Macon, GA, 1949-51; served as special attorney, Office of the District
Counsel, Internal Revenue Service, New York, NY, 1951-54; attorney,
Legislation and Regulations Division, Chief Counsel's Office,
Washington, DC, 1954-55; admitted to the bar of New Jersey, 1955; was
with the law firm of McCarter and English, Newark, NJ, until 1979,
having become a partner in 1961; served as secretary, Section of
Taxation, American Bar Association, 1977-79; served as chairman, Section
of Taxation, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1969-71; member, American
Law Institute; appointed by the President to the U.S. Tax Court, June
21, 1979, to succeed Judge Arnold Raum, who assumed senior status; took
office on June 29, 1979; assumed senior status June 1, 1992.
JULIAN I. JACOBS, senior judge, Maryland; born in Baltimore, MD,
August 13, 1937; children: Richard and Jennifer; residence: Bethesda,
MD; B.A., University of Maryland, 1958; LL.B., University of Maryland
Law School, 1960; LL.M. (taxation), Georgetown Law Center, 1965; began
legal career with the Internal Revenue Service, first in Washington, DC,
drafting tax legislation and regulations from 1961-65, and then in
Buffalo, NY, as a trial attorney in the regional counsel's office from
1965-67; entered private practice of law Baltimore City, 1967; partner,
Baltimore law firm of Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger and
Hollander, 1967, and remained until his appointment to the Tax Court on
March 30, 1984, for a 15-year term to succeed Senior Judge Theodore
Tannenwald, Jr.; chairman, study commission to improve the quality of
the Maryland Tax Court, 1978, appointed by Maryland Gov. Blair Lee;
member, several study groups to consider changes in the Maryland tax
laws and as a commissioner on a commission to reorganize and recodify
that article of Maryland law dealing with taxation, 1980, appointed by
Maryland Gov. Harry Hughes; lecturer, tax seminars and professional
programs; chairman, section of taxation, Maryland State Bar
Association.
HERBERT L. CHABOT, senior judge, Maryland; born July 17, 1931, Bronx
County, NY; married to Aleen Kerwin, 1951; four children: Elliot C.,
Donald J., Lewis A., and Nancy Jo; graduated, Stuyvesant High School,
1948; B.A. (cum laude), C.C.N.Y., 1952;
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LL.B., Columbia University, 1957; LL.M. (taxation), Georgetown
University, 1964; enlisted in U.S. Army for 2 years and Army Reserves
(civil affairs units), 8 years; served on legal staff, American Jewish
Congress, 1957-61; law clerk to tax court Judge Russell E. Train, 1961-
65; served on staff of Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, 1965-
78; elected delegate, Maryland Constitutional Convention, 1967-68;
adjunct professor, National Law Center, George Washington University,
1974-83; member, American Bar (tax section) and
Federal Bar Associations; appointed to the U.S. Tax Court for a 15-year
term, beginning April 3, 1978; reappointed for a second 15-year term in
1993.
LAURENCE J. WHALEN, judge, Oklahoma; born 1944, Philadelphia, PA;
married Nan Shaver Whalen; son: E. Holmes Whalen; A.B., Georgetown
University, 1967; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1970; LL.M.,
1971; special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, 1971-72;
trial attorney, tax division, 1971-75; private practice in Washington,
DC, with Hamel and Park (now Hopkins, Sutter, Hamel and Park), 1977-84;
also in Oklahoma City, OK, with Crowe and Dunlevy, 1984-87; member:
Oklahoma Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar Association, American
Bar Association, and Bar Association of the District of Columbia;
appointed to the U.S. Tax Court, November 23, 1987.
RENATO BEGHE, judge, Illinois; born 1933, Chicago, Illinois; married
to Bina House; four children and one grandchild; University of Chicago
(A.B. 1951; J.D. 1954); Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif and Law Review
co-managing editor; Phi Gamma Delta; admitted New York bar 1955;
practiced law with Carter, Ledyard and Milburn, New York City (associate
1954-65; partner 1965-83) and Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, New York City
(1983-89); bar associations; Association of the Bar of the City of New
York (Chairman, Art Law Committee, 1980-83); New York State Bar
Association (tax section chairman 1977-78; Joint Practice Committee of
Lawyers and Accountants, co-chairman, 1989-90); American Bar Association
(Tax Section); International Bar Association; International Fiscal
Association; member American Law Institute and American College of Tax
Counsel; member America-Italy Society, Inc. and Honorable Order of
Kentucky Counsel; appointed to the Tax Court for 15-year term beginning
March 26, 1991, to fill vacancy created by resignation of Judge B. John
Williams, Jr.
SPECIAL TRIAL JUDGES OF THE COURT
Robert N. Armen, Jr.; Lewis R. Carluzzo; D. Irvin Couvillion; John F.
Dean; Daniel J. Dinan; Stanley J. Goldberg; John J. Pajak; Peter J.
Panuthos (chief special trial judge); Carleton D. Powell, Norman H.
Wolfe.
Officers of the Court
Clerk.--Charles S. Casazza, 606-2754.
Deputy Clerk.--Lynne L. Glasser.
Budget and Accounting Officer.--Washington B. Bowie.
Librarian.--Elsa Silverman.
Reporter.--John T. Fee.
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SUSAN J. CRAWFORD, chief judge; born April 22, 1947, in Pittsburgh,
PA; daughter of William E. and Joan B. Crawford; married to Roger W.
Higgins of Geneva, NY, Sep-
tember 8, 1979; one child, Kelley S. Higgins; B.A., Bucknell University,
Pennsylvania, 1969; J.D. (cum laude), Dean's Award, Arthur McClean
Founder's Award, New England School of Law, Boston, MA, 1977; Career
record: history teacher and coach of women's athletics, Radnor High
School, Pennsylvania, 1969-74; associate, Burnett and Eiswert, Oakland,
MD, 1977-79; Assistant State's Attorney, Garrett County, Maryland, 1978-
1980; partner, Burnett, Eiswert and Crasford, 1979-81; instructor,
Garrett County Community College, 1979-81; deputy general counsel, 1981-
83, and general counsel, Department of the Army, 1983-89; special
counsel to Secretary of Defense, 1989; inspector general, Department of
Defense,
1989-91; member: bar of the Supreme Court of the United States; bar of
the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, Maryland Bar Association, District
of Columbia Bar Association, American Bar Association, Federal Bar
Association, and the Edward Bennett Williams American Inn of Court;
member: board of trustees, 1989-present, and Corporation, 1992-present,
of New England School of Law; board of trustees, 1988-present, Bucknell
University; nominated by President Bush as judge, U.S. Court of Military
Appeals, February 19, 1991, for a term of 15 years; confirmed by the
Senate on November 14, 1991, sworn in and officially assumed her duties
on November 19, 1991. On October 1, 1999, she became the Chief Judge for
a term of five years.
H.F. ``SPARKY'' GIERKE, associate judge; born March 13, 1943, in
Williston, ND; son of Herman F. Gierke, Jr., and Mary Kelly Gierke;
children: Todd, Scott, Craig, and Michelle; B.A., University of North
Dakota, 1964; J.D., University of North Dakota, 1966; graduated basic
course, the Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, VA, 1967;
graduated military judge course, the Judge Advocate General's School,
Charlottesville, VA, 1969; active duty, U.S. Army judge advocate
general's corps, 1967-71; private practice of law, 1971-83; served as a
justice of the North Dakota supreme court from October 1, 1983 until
appointment to U.S. Court of Military Appeals. Admitted to the North
Dakota Bar, 1966; admitted to practice law before all North Dakota
Courts, U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota, U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, U.S. Court of
Military Appeals, and U.S. Supreme Court; served as president of the
State Bar Association of North Dakota in 1982-83; served as president of
the North Dakota State's Attorneys Association in 1979-80; served on the
board of governors of the North Dakota Trial Lawyers Association from
1977-83; served on the board of governors of the North Dakota State Bar
Association from 1977-79 and from 1981-84; served as vice chairman and
later chairman of the North Dakota Judicial Conference from June 1989
until November 1991. Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the
American College of Probate Counsel; member of the American Bar
Association, American Judicature Society, Association of Trial Lawyers
of America, Blue Key National Honor Fraternity, Kappa Sigma Social
Fraternity, University of North Dakota President's Club; in 1984,
received the Governor's Award from Governor Allen I. Olson for
outstanding service to the State of North Dakota; in 1988 and again in
1991, awarded the North Dakota National Leadership Award of Excellence
by Governor George A. Sinner; in 1989, selected as the Man of the Year
by the Delta Mu Chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity and as Outstanding
Greek Alumnus of the University of North Dakota; also awarded the
University of North Dakota Sioux Award (UND's alumni association's
highest honor); in 1983-84, served as the first Vietnam era state
commander of the North Dakota American Legion; in 1988-89, served as the
first Viet-
nam era national commander of the American Legion; nominated by
President Bush,
October 1, 1991; confirmed by the Senate, November 14, 1991; sworn-in
and assumed office on the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, November 20,
1991.
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ANDREW S. EFFRON, associate judge; born in Stamford, CT, September
18, 1948; education: A.B., Harvard College, 1970; J.D., Harvard Law
School, 1975; The Judge Advocate General's School, U.S. Army, 1976,
1983; legislative aide to the late Representative William A. Steiger,
1970-76 (two years full-time, the balance between school semesters);
judge advocate, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, Fort McClellan,
Alabama, 1976-77; attorney-adviser, Office of the General Counsel,
Department of Defense, 1977-87; Counsel, General Counsel, and Minority
Counsel, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate, 1987-96; nominated by
President Clinton to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed
Forces, June 21, 1996; confirmed by the Senate, July 12, 1996; took
office on August 1, 1996.
JAMES E. BAKER, associate judge; born in New Haven, CT, on March 25,
1960; education: BA., Yale University, 1982; J.D., Yale Law School,
1990; Attorney, Department of State, 1990-1993; Counsel, President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board / Intelligence Oversight Board,
1993-1994; Deputy Legal Advisor, National Security Counsel, 1994-1997;
Special Assistant to the President and Legal Advisor, National Security
Counsel, 1997-2000;
military service: U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Marine Corp Reserve;
nominated by President Clinton to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Armed Forces; began service on September 19, 2000.
CHARLES E. ERDMANN, associate judge; born in Great Falls, Montana on
June 26, 1946; Education: BA, Montana State University, 1972; JD,
University of Montana Law School, 1975; Air Force Judge Advocate Staff
Officers Course, 1981; Air Command and Staff College, 1992; Air War
College, 1994; Military Service: U.S. Marine Corps, 1967-1970; Air
National Guard, 1981-2002 (retired as a Colonel); Employment: Assistant
Montana Attorney General, 1975-76; Chief Counsel, Montana State
Auditor's Office, 1976-78; Chief Staff Attorney, Montana Attorney
General's Office, Antitrust Bureau; Bureau Chief, Montana Medicaid Fraud
Bureau, 1980-82; General Counsel, Montana School Boards Association,
1982-86; Private Practice of Law, 1986-95; Associate Justice, Montana
Supreme Court, 1995-97; Office of High Representative of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Judicial Reform Coordinator, 1998-99; Office of High
Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Head of Human Rights and Rule
of Law Department, 1999; Chairman and Chief Judge, Bosnian Election
Court, 2000-01; Judicial Reform and International Law Consultant, 2001-
2002; appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Armed Forces on October 9, 2002, commenced service on
October 15, 2002.
WILLIAM HORACE DARDEN, senior judge; born in Union Point, GA, May
16, 1923; son of William W. and Sara (Newsom) Darden; B.B.A., University
of Georgia, 1946; LL.B., University of Georgia, 1948; admitted to bar of
Georgia and to practice before the Georgia Supreme Court, 1948; active
duty in U.S. Navy from July 1, 1943 to July 3, 1946, when released to
inactive duty as lieutenant (jg.); married to Mary Parrish Viccellio of
Chatham, VA, December 31, 1949; children: Sara Newsom, Martha Hardy,
William H., Jr., Daniel Hobson; secretary to U.S. Senator Richard B.
Russell, 1948-51; chief clerk of U.S. Senate Committee on Armed
Services, 1951-53; professional staff member and later chief of staff,
U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, February 1953 to November 1968;
received recess appointment as judge of the U.S. Court of Military
Appeals from President Johnson on November 5, 1968, to succeed the late
Judge Paul J. Kilday; took oath of office
on November 13, 1968; nominated by President Johnson for the unexpired
part of the
term of the late Judge Paul J. Kilday ending May 1, 1976; confirmed by
Senate on
January 14, 1969; designated chief judge by President Nixon on June 23,
1971; resigned
December 29, 1973; elected to become senior judge on February 11, 1974.
ROBINSON O. EVERETT, senior judge; born in Durham, NC, March 18,
1928; son of Reuben O. and Kathrine (Robinson) Everett; A.B. (magna cum
laude), Harvard College, 1947; J.D. (magna cum laude), Harvard Law
School, 1950; LL.M., Duke University, 1959; active duty in U.S. Air
Force, 1951-53; thereafter served in U.S. Air Force Reserve and retired
as colonel, 1978; married to Linda McGregor of Greensboro, NC, August
27, 1966; children: Robinson O., Jr., McGregor, and Lewis Moore;
commissioner, U.S. Court of Military Appeals, 1953-55; private law
practice, Durham, NC, 1955-80; assistant professor of law, 1950-51;
adjunct professor of law, 1963-66; professor of law, Duke Law School,
1967-present; chairman Durham Urban Redevelopment Commission, 1958-75;
counsel,
1961-64; consultant, 1964-66; Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights,
Senate Committee on the Judiciary; chairman, Standing Committee on
Military Law, American Bar Association,
1977-79; president, Durham County Bar Association, 1976-77;
commissioner, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State
Laws, 1961-73, 1977-present; member, American Law Institute, 1966-
present; councillor, North Carolina State Bar, 1978-83; nominated by
President Carter as judge of U.S. Court of Military Appeals, February
14, 1980, for the
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remainder of the term expiring May 1, 1981; unanimously confirmed by the
Senate and designated chief judge by President Carter, March 28, 1980;
took oath of office, April 16, 1980; term of office extended until April
15, 1990, by Act of December 23, 1980, Public Law 96-579, section 12, 94
Stat. 3369; term of office further extended until Sep. 30, 1990 by Act
of November 29, 1989, Public Law 101-189, section 1301, 103 Stat 1575-
76. Immediately upon his retirement at the end of his term on September
30, 1990, assumed status of senior judge and returned to full active
service until January 1, 1992.
WALTER THOMPSON COX III, senior judge; born August 13, 1942, in
Anderson, SC; son of Walter T. Cox and Mary Johnson Cox; married to
Vicki Grubbs of Anderson, SC, February 8, 1963; children: Lisa and
Walter; B.S., Clemson University, 1964; J.D. (cum laude), University of
South Carolina School of Law, 1967; graduated Defense Language Institute
(German), 1969; graduated basic course, the Judge Advocate General's
School, Charlottesville, VA, 1967; studied procurement law at that same
school, 1968. Active duty, U.S. Army judge advocate general's corps,
1964-72 (1964-67, excess leave to U.S.C. Law School). Private law
practice, 1973-78. Elected resident judge, 10th Judicial Circuit, South
Carolina, 1978-84; also served as acting associate justice of South
Carolina supreme court, on the judicial council, on the circuit court
advisory committee, and as a hearing officer of the judicial standards
commission; member: bar of the Supreme Court of the United States; bar
of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals; South Carolina Bar Association;
Anderson County Bar Association; the American Bar Association; the South
Carolina Trial Lawyers Association; the Federal Bar Association; and the
Bar Association of the District of Columbia; has served as a member of
the House of Delegates of the South Carolina Bar, and the Board of
Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline. Nominated by President
Reagan, as judge of U.S. Court of Military Appeals, June 28, 1984, for a
term of 15 years; confirmed by the Senate, July 26, 1984; sworn-in and
officially assumed his duties on September 6, 1984; retired on September
30, 1999 and immediately assumed status of senior judge on
October 1, 1999 and returned to full active service until September 19,
2000.
EUGENE R. SULLIVAN, senior judge; born August 2, 1941, in St. Louis,
MO; son of Raymond V. and Rosemary K. Sullivan; married to Lis U.
Johansen of Ribe, Denmark, June 18, 1966; children: Kim A. and Eugene R.
II; B.S., U.S. Military Academy, West Point, 1964; J.D., Georgetown Law
Center, Washington, DC, 1971; active duty with the U.S. Army, 1964-69;
service included duty with the 3rd Armored Division in Germany, and the
4th Infantry Division in Vietnam; R&D assignments with the Army Aviation
Systems Command; one year as an instructor at the Army Ranger School,
Ft. Benning, GA; decorations include: Bronze Star, Air Medal, Army
Commendation Medal, Ranger and Parachutist Badges, Air Force Exceptional
Civilian Service Medal. Following graduation from law school, clerked
with U.S. Court of Appeals (8th Circuit), St. Louis, 1971-72; private
law practice, Washington, DC, 1972-74; assistant special counsel, White
House, 1974; trial attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, 1974-82; deputy
general counsel, Department of the Air Force, 1982-84; general counsel
of the Department of Air Force, 1984-86; Governor of Wake Island, 1984-
86; presently serves on the Board of Governors for the West Point
Society of the District of Columbia; the American Cancer Society
(Montgomery County Chapter); nominated by President Reagan, as judge,
U.S. Court of Military Appeals on February 25, 1986, and confirmed by
the Senate on May 20, 1986, and assumed his office on May 27, 1986.
President Bush named him the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Military
Appeals, effective October 1, 1990, a position he held for five years.
He retired on September 30, 2001 and immediately assumed status of
senior judge and returned to full active service until Sept. 30, 2002.
Officers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Clerk of the Court.--William A. DeCicco.
Chief Deputy Clerk of the Court.--David A. Anderson.
Deputy Clerk for Opinions.--Kevin A. Doherty.
Administrative Officer.--Robert J. Bieber.
Librarian.--Agnes Kiang.
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR VETERANS CLAIMS
625 Indiana Avenue 20004, phone 501-5970
KENNETH B. KRAMER, chief judge; born February 19, 1942, in Chicago,
IL; B.A., University of Illinois, 1963; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1966;
admitted to the bars of the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of
Military Appeals, the State of Colorado, and the State of Illinois;
commissioned in the U.S. Army, captain, Judge Advocate General's Corps,
1967-70; counsel, Army Physical Disability Evaluation Board, Fitzsimons
Army Medical Center, Denver, CO; trial and defense counsel in general
court-martial cases, chief of administrative law, and legal assistance
officer, Fort Lewis, WA; practiced civil litigation law with Lord,
Bissell and Brook, 1970; prosecutor, Office of the Deputy District
Attorney, 4th Judicial District, Colorado, 1970-72; practiced law with
Holme, Roberts and Owen, Colorado Springs, CO, 1972-74; practiced law
with Floyd, Kramer and Lambrecht in Colorado, 1975-78; elected to the
Colorado House of Representatives, 1973-78; serving as the chairman of
the Rules Committee, and member of the Judiciary, Business Affairs and
Labor, Education, Finance and Health Committees; elected to the U.S.
House of Representatives, 1979-87; vice president, Aries Properties in
Colorado Springs, CO, 1987; served as Assistant Secretary of the Army
(Financial Management), 1988, until September 1989; confirmed by the
U.S. Senate to the Court of Veterans Appeals on September 17, 1989;
sworn in October 16, 1989;
JOHN J. FARLEY III, judge, of Bowie, MD; born July 30, 1942 in
Hackensack, NJ to John J. Jr. and Patricia F. (Earle) Farley; married
June 27, 1970 to Kathleen M. Wells; children: Maura, Brendan, Thomas,
and Caitlin; A.B., economics, Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, 1964;
M.B.A., Columbia University Graduate School of Business, 1966 (Samuel
Bronfman Fellow, Alpha Kappa Psi); J.D. (cum laude), Hofstra University
School of Law, 1973 (first in class, editor-in-chief, Hofstra Law
Review); served active duty as private, U.S. Army, 1966; released as
Captain in 1970 after service in Vietnam, with Bronze Star with ``V''
device, three oak leaf clusters, Purple Heart with oak leaf cluster,
Army Commendation Medal; career record 1973-78; attorney with the
Department of Justice: trial attorney, torts section, 1978-80; assistant
director for official immunity, torts branch, 1980-89; director, torts
branch, with Civil Division, Department of Justice, 1989-present;
admitted to: New York State Bar, 1974; District of Columbia Bar and U.S.
Court of Appeals for D.C., 1975; U.S. Supreme Court Bar, 1977; author:
``Robin Hood Jurisprudence: The Triumph of Equity in American Tort
Law,'' 65 St. John's Law Review 997, 1991; ``The New Kid on the Block:
The United States Court of Veterans Appeals,'' Federal Bar News and
Journal, volume 38, No. 9, Nov. / Dec. 1991; ``Personal Liability of
Federal Investigators and Law Enforcement Officers,'' Investigators
Journal, volume 2, Fall 1986; ``Senior Executives' Personal Liability,''
7, Action 4, May 1987; ``The Fallout from Westfall,'' 8 Ibid. 3 March
1988; ``From Liability to Immunity: The Roller Coaster Ride of 1988,''
The Institute, 1, February 1989; notable decisions: Erspamer v.
Derwinski, 1990; Rogozinski v. Derwinski, 1990; Gilbert v. Derwinski,
1990; Fegere v. Derwinski, 1990; Smith v. Derwinski, 1991; Ashley v.
Derwinski, 1992; Darrow v. Derwinski, 1992; Zarycki v. Brown, 1993;
Elcyzyn v. Brown, 1994; recipient: Special Achievement Award, Department
of Justice, 1979; First Civil Division Special Award for Superior
Performance, Department of Justice, 1980;
Senior Executive Service Special Achievement Awards, 1984 and 1988;
Distinguished Alumni medal, Hofstra University School of Law, 1986;
Dean's award for distinguised Hofstra Law School alumni, 1995; member:
Federal Bar Association; Board of Directors, Amputee Coalition of
America; John Carroll Society; Roman Catholic; nominated for appointment
on
August 29, 1989, by President Bush; confirmed by the Senate September
14, 1989; sworn in September 15, 1989.
DONALD L. IVERS, judge; born on May 6, 1941, in San Diego, CA; A.A.,
New Mexico Military Institute, 1961; B.A., University of New Mexico,
1963; J.D., American University, 1971; active duty in the U.S. Army,
1963-68, U.S., Europe, and Vietnam; retired from U.S. Army Reserve with
the rank of lieutenant colonel; clerk, District of Columbia Superior
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Court and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals; private practice of
law with Brault, Graham, Scott and Brault, Washington, DC, 1972-78;
chief counsel, Republican National Committee, 1978-81; chief counsel,
Federal Highway Administration, 1981-85; director, Safety Review Task
Force, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1984-85; general counsel,
Veterans Administration, 1985-89; assistant to the Secretary, United
States Department of Veterans Affairs, 1990; resides in Alexandria, VA;
married, and the father of three children; nominated by President Bush,
confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 1990; sworn in August 7, 1990.
JONATHAN ROBERT STEINBERG, judge; B.A., Cornell University, 1960;
L.L.B., cum laude, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, 1963;
research and note editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review; Order
of the Coif; research assistant, American Law Institute; law clerk for
then Circuit Judge Warren E. Burger, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit, 1963-64; attorney advisor, Peace Corps,
1964-68, and deputy general counsel, 1968-69; counsel, U.S. Senate
Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (Subcommittee on Veterans'
Affairs, Subcommittee on Railroad Retirement, and Special Subcommittee
on Human Resources) 1969-77; chief counsel / staff director, U.S. Senate
Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 1977-81 and 1987-90; minority chief
counsel / staff director, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 1981-87;
admitted to bar of U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. Circuit, May 1964;
resides in Potomac, MD, with his wife Shellie; two adult children:
Andrew and Amy; nominated by President Bush in May 1990, confirmed by
the U.S. Senate in August 1990; sworn in on September 13, 1990.
WILLIAM P. GREENE, Jr., judge; born on July 27, 1943, in Bluefield,
WV, to William and Dorothy Greene; married to Madeline Sinkford of
Bluefield, WV; two children, William Robert, senior account executive
for Dun and Bradstreet, Cincinnati, OH, and Jeffery P., officer and
physician, United States Army Medical Corps, Tripler Army Medical
Center, Hawaii, B.A., political science, West Virginia State College,
1965; J.D., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1968; active duty in
the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps following
graduation from law school; as Judge Advocate, completed military
education at the Basic, Advanced, and Military Judges' courses at The
Judge Advocate General's School, the Army Command and General Staff
College, Fort Leavenworth, KS, and the Army War College, Carlisle
Barracks, PA; served as the Chief Prosecutor, Fort Knox, KY, 1969-97,
and Chief Defense Counsel, Army Command, Hawaii, 1970-73; Army chief
recruiter for lawyers 1974-77; Department Chair, Criminal Law Division,
Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, VA, 1981-84; Deputy
Staff Judge Advocate, Third Infantry Division, Germany 1977-80; Staff
Judge Advocate, Second Infantry Division, Korea 1984-85; following
graduation from the United States Army War College, selected to serve as
the Staff Judge Advocate of the United States Military Academy at West
Point, NY, 1986-90, followed by another selection as Staff Judge
Advocate at Fort Leavenworth, KS; retired from the United States Army as
Colonel, 1993, receiving several awards during this service, including
three Legions of Merit, three Meritorious Service Medals, and two Army
Commendation Medals; appointed by the Attorney General of the United
States as an Immigration Judge, Department of Justice, presiding over
immigration cases in Maryland and Pennsylvania, June 1993--November
1997; nominated for appointment by President Clinton May 16, 1997;
confirmed by the U.S. Senate November 7, 1997; sworn in November 24,
1997.
Officers of the U.S. Court of Veterans Appeals
Clerk of the Court.--Norman Y. Herring, 501-5980.
Operations Manager.--Anne P. Stygles.
Counsel and Court Reporter of Decisions.--Jack F. Lane.
Senior Staff Attorney (Central Legal Staff).--Jeffery N. Luthi.
Deputy Executive Officer.--Marlene Davis.
Librarian.--Bernard J. Sussman.
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JUDICIAL PANEL ON MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION
Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building, Room G-255, North Lobby,
One Columbus Circle NE 20002, phone (202) 502-2800, fax 502-2888
(National jurisdiction to centralize related cases pending in multiple
circuits
and districts under 28 U.S.C. Sec. Sec. 1407 & 2112)
Chairman.--Wm. Terrell Hodges, U.S. District Judge, Middle District of
Florida.
Judges:
John F. Keenan, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New
York.
Bruce M. Selya, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge, First Circuit.
Julia Smith Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge, Sixth Circuit.
D. Lowell Jensen, U.S. District Judge, Northern District of
California.
J. Frederick Motz, U.S. District Judge, Chief Judge, District of
Maryland.
Robert L. Miller, Jr., U.S. District Judge, Northern District of
Indiana.
Executive Attorney.--Robert A. Cahn.
Clerk.--Michael J. Beck.
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ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE U.S. COURTS
Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building
One Columbus Circle, NE 20544, phone (202) 502-2600
Director.--Leonidas Ralph Mecham, 273-3000.
Associate Director, Management and Operations.--Clarence A. Lee,
Jr., 273-3015.
Deputy Associate Director.--Cathy A. McCarthy, 502-1300.
Chief, Office of Audit.--Jeff Larioni, 502-1000.
Management Coordination and Planning Officer.--Cathy A. McCarthy,
502-1300.
Chief, Long-Range Planning Office.--William M. Lucianovic, 502-1300.
Associate Director and General Counsel.--William R. Burchill, Jr.,
502-1100.
Deputy General Counsel.--Robert K. Loesche, 502-1100.
Assistant Director, Judicial Conference Executive Secretariat.--
Karen K. Siegel, 502-2400.
Deputy Assistant Director, Judicial Conference Executive
Secretariat.--Wendy Jennis,
02-2400.
Assistant Director, Legislative Affairs.--Michael W. Blommer, 502-
1700.
Deputy Assistant Director for Legislative Affairs.--Daniel A.
Cunningham, 502-1700.
Chief, Judicial Impact Office.--Richard A. Jaffe, 502-1700.
Assistant Director, Public Affairs.--David A. Sellers, 502-2600.
Assistant Director for Court Programs.--Noel J. Augustyn, 502-1500.
Deputy Assistant Director for Court Administration.--Glen K. Palman,
502-1500.
Chief of--
Electronic Access Program.--Mary Stickney, 502-1500.
Appellate Court and Circuit Administration Division.--JohnP.
Hehman, 502-1520.
Bankruptcy Court Administration Division.--Glen K. Palman, 502-
1540.
Court Administration Policy Staff.--Abel J. Mattos, 502-1560.
Defender Services Division.--Theodore J. Lidz, 502-3030.
District Court Administration Division.--Robert Lowney, 502-
1570.
Federal Corrections and Supervision Division.--John M. Hughes,
502-1610.
Assistant Director for Facilities and Security.--Ross Eisenman, 502-
1200.
Deputy Assistant Director for Facilities and Security.--William J.
Lehman, 502-1200.
Chief of--
Court Security Office.--Dennis P. Chapas, 502-1280.
Policy and Resource Management Staff.--William J. Lehman
(acting), 502-1200.
Space and Facilities Division.--Rodgers A. Stewart, 502-1340.
Assistant Director for Finance and Budget.--George H. Schafer, 502-
2000.
Deputy Assistant Director for Finance and Budget.--Gregory D.
Cummings, 502-2000.
Chief of--
Accounting and Financial Systems Division.--Philip L. McKinney,
502-2000.
Budget Division.--Bruce E. Johnson, 502-2100.
Financial Liaison Office.--Penny Jacobs Fleming, 502-2028.
Assistant Director for Human Resources and Statistics.--R. Townsend
Robinson, 502-1170.
Chief of--
Employee Relations Office.--Trudi M. Morrison, 502-1380.
Human Resources Division.--Charlotte G. Peddicord, 502-3100.
Judiciary Benefits Program Office.--Lee Horvath, 502-1160.
Program and Workforce Development Division.--Maurice E. White,
502-1660.
Statistics Division.--Steven R. Schlesinger, 502-1440.
Assistant Director for Information Technology.--Melvin J. Bryson,
502-2300.
Deputy Assistant Director for Information Technology.--Barbara C.
Macken, 502-2300.
Chief, Technology Officer.--Richard D. Fennell, 502-2300.
Chief of--
IT Applications Development Office.--Wendy R. Lageman, 502-2377.
IT Infrastructure Management Division.--Craig W. Jenkins, 502-
2640.
IT Policy Staff.--Terry A. Cain, 502-3300.
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IT Project Coordination Office.--Frank Dozier (acting), 502-
2310.
IT Security Office.--Robert N. Sinsheimer, 502-2350.
IT Systems Deployment and Support Division.--Howard J. Grandier,
502-2700.
Assistant Director for Internal Services.--Laura C. Minor, 502-4200.
Deputy Assistant Director for Internal Services.--Nancy Lee
Bradshaw, 502-4200.
Chief of--
AO Administrative Services Division.--Doreen G.B. Bydume, 502-
1220.
AO Information Management Services Division.--John C. Chang,
502-2830.
AO Personnel Officer.--Cheri Thompson Reid, 502-3800.
AO Procurement Management Division.--Arnold Gildenhorn, 502-
1330.
Assistant Director for Judges Programs.--Peter G. McCabe, 502-1800.
Deputy Assistant Director for Policy Development.--Jeffrey A.
Hennemuth, 502-1800.
Chief of--
Analytical Services Office.--Ellyn L. Vail, 502-1180.
Article III Judges Division.--Margaret A. Irving (acting), 502-
1860.
Bankruptcy Judges Division.--Francis F. Szczebak, 502-1900.
Magistrate Judges Division.--Thomas C. Hnatowski, 502-1830.
Rules Committee Support Office.--John K. Rabiej, 502-1820.
FEDERAL JUDICIAL CENTER
One Columbus Circle NE 20002-8003, phone (202) 502-4000
Director.--Judge Fern M. Smith, 502-4160, fax 502-4099.
Deputy Director.--Russell R. Wheeler, 502-4164, fax 502-4019.
Director of--
Communications Policy and Design.--Sylvan A. Sobel, 502-4250,
fax 502-4077.
Judicial Education.--John S. Cooke, 502-4060, fax 502-4299.
Research.--James B. Eaglin, 502-4070, fax 502-4199.
Court Education.--Emily Z. Huebner, 502-4110, fax 502-4088.
Chief of--
Interjudicial Affairs Office.--Mira Gur-Arie, 502-4191, fax 502-
4099.
Systems Innovations and Development Office.--Ted Coleman, 502-
4223, fax 502-4288.
Federal Judicial History Office.--Bruce A. Ragsdale, 502-4181,
fax 502-4077.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURTS
phone 879-1010
Executive Officer.--Anne B. Wicks, 879-1700.
Deputy Executive Officer.--Cheryl R. Bailey, 879-1700; fax 879-4829.
Director, Legislative, Intergovernmental and Public Affairs.--Leah
Gurowitz, 879-1700.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS
500 Indiana Avenue 20001, phone 879-1010
Chief Judge.--Annice M. Wagner, 879-2770.
Associate Judges:
Michael W. Farrell, 879-2790.
Stephen H. Glickman, 879-2740.
Inez Smith Reid, 879-2726.
Vanessa Ruiz, 879-2761.
John A. Terry, 879-2780.
Frank E. Schwelb, 879-2730.
John M. Steadman, 879-2785.
Eric T. Washington, 879-2700.
Senior Judges: George R. Gallagher, 879-2768; John W. Kern III, 879-
2754; William C. Pryor, 879-2745; Julia Cooper Mack, 879-
2765; Theodore R. Newman, Jr.,
879-2740; James A. Belson, 879-2760, Warren King, 626-8871;
John M. Ferren, 879-2772; Frank Q. Nebeker, 879-2778.
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Clerk.--Garland Pinkston, Jr., 879-2725.
Chief Deputy Clerk.--Joy A. Chapper, 879-2722.
Administration Director.--Steven J. Newman, 879-2738.
Admissions Director.--Clare M. Root, 879-2714.
Public Office Operations Director.--Jeanette E. Togans, 879-
2702.
Senior Staff Attorney.--Rosanna M. Mason, 879-2718.
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
phone 879-1010
Chief Judge.--Rufus G. King III, 879-1600.
Associate Judges:
Geoffrey M. Alprin, 879-1577.
Judith Bartnoff, 879-1988.
John H. Bayly, Jr., 879-7874.
Ronna L. Beck, 879-1162.
James E. Boasberg, 879-4886.
Shellie F. Bowers, 879-1288.
Ana Blackburne-Rigsby, 879-0055.
Patricia A. Broderick, 879-8345.
A. Franklin Burgess, Jr., 879-1164.
Zoe Bush, 879-0023.
John M. Campbell, 879-1430.
Russell F. Canan, 879-1952.
Erik Christian, 879-1760.
Kaye K. Christian, 879-1668.
Natalia Combs Greene, 879-8350.
Harold L. Cushenberry, Jr., 879-4866.
Linda Kay Davis, 879-0050.
Rafael Diaz, 879-1125.
Herbert B. Dixon, Jr., 879-4808.
Stephanie Duncan-Peters, 879-1882.
Mildred M. Edwards, 879-7840.
Gerald I. Fisher, 879-8388.
Wendell P. Gardner, Jr., 879-1810.
Steffen W. Graae, 879-1244.
Brook Hedge, 879-1886.
William M. Jackson, 879-1909.
J. Ramsey Johnson, 879-8306.
Anita Josey-Herring, 879-1574.
Ann O'Regan Keary, 879-1863.
Noel A. Kramer, 879-1446.
Neal E. Kravitz, 879-8353.
Cheryl M. Long, 879-1200.
Jose M. Lopez, 879-7877.
Lynn Lebowitz, 879-0441
George W. Mitchell, 879-1277.
Zinora Mitchell-Rankin, 879-7846.
Robert E. Morin, 879-1550.
Thomas J. Motley, 879-8377.
John M. Mott, 879-8393.
Hiram E. Puig-Lugo, 879-8370.
Michael L. Rankin, 879-1220.
Judith E. Retchin, 879-1866.
Robert I. Richter, 879-1422.
Robert Rigsby, 879-4344.
Maurice Ross, 879-1765.
Lee F. Satterfield, 879-1918.
Nan R. Shuker, 879-1207.
Mary A. Gooden Terrell, 879-1639.
Linda D. Turner, 879-1819.
Odessa F. Vincent, 879-0447.
Frederick H. Weisberg, 879-1066.
Susan R. Winfield, 879-1272.
Rhonda Reid Winston, 879-4750.
Melvin R. Wright, 879-8336.
Joan Zeldon, 879-1590.
Senior Judges:
Mary Ellen Abrecht, 879-7834.
Bruce D. Beaudin, 879-1575.
Leonard Braman, 879-1440.
Arthur L. Burnett, Sr., 879-4882.
Frederick D. Dorsey, 879-7837.
Stephen F. Eilperin, 879-1566.
George H. Goodrich, 879-1055.
Henry F. Greene, 879-1455.
Eugene N. Hamilton, 879-1727.
Margaret A. Haywood, 879-4633.
John R. Hess, 879-1420.
Bruce S. Mencher, 879-1358.
Stephen G. Milliken, 879-1823.
Gregory E. Mize, 879-1395.
Truman A. Morrison III, 879-1060.
Tim Murphy, 879-1099.
Robert S. Tignor, 879-1252.
Fred B. Ugast, 879-1890.
Paul R. Webber III, 879-1426.
Ronald P. Wertheim, 879-1170.
Peter H. Wolf, 879 -1088.
Patricia A. Wynn, 879-4630.
Clerk of the Court.--Duane B. Delaney, 879-1400.