    Congressional Directory for the 115th Congress (2017-2018), October 2018 Revision
    [Pages 883-886]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                      UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS

      Lafayette Square, 717 Madison Place, NW., 20439, phone (202) 357-6406

        SUSAN G. BRADEN, chief judge, born in Youngstown, OH, November 8,
    1948; married to Thomas M. Susman; daughter (Daily); B.A., Case Western
    Reserve University, 1970; J.D., Case Western Reserve University School
    of Law, 1973; post graduate study Harvard Law School, Summer, 1979;
    private practice, 1985-2003 (1997-2003 Baker and McKenzie); Federal
    Trade Commission: special counsel to Chairman, 1984-85, senior attorney
    advisor to Commissioner and Acting Chairman, 1980-83; U.S. Department of
    Justice, Antitrust Division, Senior Trial Attorney, Energy Section,
    1978-80; Cleveland Field Office, 1973-78; Special Assistant Attorney
    General for the State of Alabama, 1990; Consultant to the Administrative
    Conference of the United States, 1984-85; 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, 1995-96; 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, 2000-02; member of
    the American Bar Association (Council Member, Section on Administrative
    Law and Regulatory Practice, 1996-99), Federal Circuit Bar Association,
    District of Columbia Bar Association, Computer Law Bar Association;
    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; appointed to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims by President George
    W. Bush on July 14, 2003. Appointed chief judge by President Donald
    Trump on March 13, 2017.

        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; 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.

        CHARLES F. LETTOW, judge, born in Iowa Falls, IA, 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, 1963-65; law clerk to Judge Ben C. Duniway,
    U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1968-69, and Chief Justice
    Warren E. Burger, Supreme Court of the United States, 1969-70; counsel,
    Council on Environmental Quality, Executive Office of the President,
    1970-73; associate (1973-76) and partner (1976-2003), Cleary, Gottlieb,
    Steen and 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;

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    nominated by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Court of Federal
    Claims in 2001 and confirmed and took office in 2003.

        MARY ELLEN COSTER WILLIAMS, judge; born in Flushing, NY, April 3,
    1953; married with two children; B.A. summa cum laude (Greek and Latin)
    and M.A. (Latin), The Catholic University of America, 1974; J.D., Duke
    University, 1977; Editorial Board, Duke Law Journal, 1976-77; admitted
    to the District of Columbia Bar; associate, Fulbright and Jaworski,
    1977-79; associate, Schnader, Harrison, Segal and Lewis, 1979-83;
    Assistant U.S. Attorney, Civil Division, District of Columbia, 1983-87;
    partner, Janis, Schuelke and Wechsler, 1987-89; administrative judge,
    General Services Board of Contract Appeals, March 1989-July 2003;
    secretary, District of Columbia Bar, 1988-89; Fellow, American Bar
    Foundation, elected 1985; Board of Directors, Bar Association of the
    District of Columbia, 1985-88; Chairman, Young Lawyers Section, Bar
    Association of the District of Columbia, 1985-86; Chair, Public Contract
    Law Section of the American Bar Association, 2002-03; Chair-Elect, Vice-
    Chair, Secretary, Council, 1995-2002; Delegate, Section of Public
    Contract Law, ABA House of Delegates, 2003-08 and 2014-present; ABA
    Board of Governors, 2010-13; Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins
    University, 2006-present; Adjunct Professor, The Catholic University of
    America Columbus School of Law, 2004-06; appointed to the U.S. Court of
    Federal Claims on July 21, 2003.

        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; 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. Department of
    Agriculture, 1988; paralegal specialist, Office of the general counsel,
    U.S. Department 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 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 and
    Rosenthal, 2000-01; associate, Cooper and Kirk, 2001-03; associate
    editor, Public Contract Law Journal, 2006-present; appointed by
    President George W. Bush to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on July 14,
    2003.

        THOMAS C. WHEELER, judge; born in Chicago, IL, March 18, 1948;
    married; two grown children; B.A., Gettysburg College, 1970; J.D.,
    Georgetown University Law School, 1973; private practice in Washington,
    DC, 1973-2005; associate and partner, Pettit and Martin until 1995;
    partner, Piper and Marbury (later Piper Marbury Rudnick and Wolfe, and
    then DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary); member of the District of Columbia
    Bar; American Bar Association's Public Contracts and Litigation
    Sections; appointed to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on October 24,
    2005.

        MARGARET M. SWEENEY, judge; born in Baltimore, MD; B.A. in history,
    Notre Dame of Maryland, 1977; J.D., Delaware Law School, 1981; Delaware
    Family Court Master, 1981-83; litigation associate, Fedorko, Gilbert,
    and Lanctot, Morrisville, PA, 1983-85; law clerk to Hon. Loren A. Smith,
    Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1985-87; trial attorney
    in the General Litigation Section of the Environment and Natural
    Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice, 1987-99;
    president, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar Association, 1999; attorney
    advisor, United States Department of Justice Office of Intelligence
    Policy and Review, 1999-2003; special master, U.S. Court of Federal
    Claims, 2003-05; member of the Bars of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
    and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals; appointed to the U.S.
    Court of Federal Claims by President George W. Bush on October 24, 2005,
    and entered duty on December 14, 2005.

        PATRICIA E. CAMPBELL-SMITH, judge; born in Baltimore, MD, 1966;
    B.S.E.E., Duke University, 1987; J.D., Tulane Law School, 1992; admitted
    to the Bar of Louisiana; judicial extern to Hon. John Minor Wisdom, U.S.
    Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1991; law clerk to Hon. Martin
    L. C. Feldman, U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Louisiana,
    1992-93; associate, Liskow and Lewis, 1993-96, 1997-98; law clerk to
    Hon. Sarah S. Vance

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    (Chief Judge), U.S. District Court for Eastern District of Louisiana,
    1996-97; senior law clerk to Hon. Emily C. Hewitt (Chief Judge), U.S.
    Court of Federal Claims, 1998-2005; special master, U.S. Court of
    Federal Claims, 2005-11; chief special master, U.S. Court of Federal
    Claims, 2011-13; appointed to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims by
    President Obama on September 19, 2013; chief judge from October 21,
    2013-March 13, 2017.

        ELAINE D. KAPLAN, judge; born in Brooklyn, New York, December 18,
    1955; B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1976; J.D.,
    Georgetown University, 1979; Office of the Solicitor General, Department
    of Labor, 1979-83; Attorney, State and Local Legal Center, 1983-84;
    Attorney and Deputy General Counsel, National Treasury Employees Union,
    1984-98; Special Counsel, Office of Special Counsel, 1998-03; Of
    Counsel, Bernabei and Katz, 2003-04; Senior Deputy General Counsel,
    National Treasury Employees Union, 2004-09; General Counsel, U.S. Office
    of Personnel Management, 2009-13; Acting Director, U.S. Office of
    Personnel Management, 2013; appointed to the U.S. Court of Federal
    Claims by President Barack Obama on September 17, 2013.

        LYDIA KAY GRIGGSBY, judge; born in Baltimore, MD, January 16, 1968;
    educated at the Park School, Brooklandville, MD, 1980-86; B.A.,
    University of Pennsylvania, 1990; J.D., Georgetown University Law
    Center, 1993; member, Bar of Maryland and Bar of the District of
    Columbia; private practice of law, DLA Piper, 1993-95; Trial Attorney,
    United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Commercial
    Litigation Branch, 1995-98; Assistant United States Attorney, United
    States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, 1998-2004;
    Counsel, United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics, 2004-06;
    Privacy Counsel, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 2006-
    08; Chief Counsel for Privacy and Information Policy, United States
    Senate Committee on the Judiciary 2008-14; appointed by President Obama
    to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on December 5, 2014; entered duty on
    December 15, 2014.

                                  SENIOR JUDGES

        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; admitted to the 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; designated in Federal Courts Improvement Act of 1982 as
    judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims and reappointed by President Reagan
    to 15-year term on October 14, 1986.

        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; appointed to
    the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on April 15, 1986.

        LYNN J. BUSH, senior 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, 1976-87; senior trial attorney, Naval Facilities Engineering
    Command, Department of the Navy, 1987-89; counsel, Engineering Field
    Activity Chesapeake, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Department of
    the Navy, 1989-96; administrative judge, U.S. Department of Housing and
    Urban Development Board of Contract Appeals, 1996-98; nominated by
    President Clinton to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, June 22, 1998;
    and assumed duties of the office on October 26, 1998.

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        EDWARD J. DAMICH, senior 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 George H.W.
    Bush to be a Commissioner of the Copyright Royalty Tribunal, 1992-93;
    Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee,
    1995-98; admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia; member of the
    District of Columbia 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; appointed by President
    Clinton as judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, October 22, 1998; served
    as chief judge May 13, 2002-March 11, 2009.

        NANCY B. FIRESTONE, senior judge; born in Manchester, NH, October
    17, 1951; B.A., Washington University, 1973; J.D., University of
    Missouri, Kansas City, 1977; one child; attorney, Appellate Section and
    Environmental Enforcement Section, U.S. Department of Justice,
    Washington, DC, 1977-84; assistant chief, Policy Legislation and Special
    Litigation, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of
    Justice, Washington, DC, 1984-85; Deputy Chief, Environmental
    Enforcement Section, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, 1985-89;
    associate deputy administrator, Environmental Protection Agency,
    Washington, DC, 1989-92; judge, Environmental Appeals Board,
    Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 1992-95; Deputy
    Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division,
    Department of Justice, Washington, DC, 1995-98; adjunct professor,
    Georgetown University Law Center, 1985-present; appointed to the U.S.
    Court of Federal Claims by President Clinton on October 22, 1998.