Congressional Directory for the 115th Congress (2017-2018), October 2018 Revision
[Pages 859-864]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
333 Constitution Avenue, NW., 20001, phone (202) 216-7300
MERRICK BRIAN GARLAND, chief circuit judge; born in Chicago, IL,
1952; A.B., Harvard University, 1974, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa,
Paul Revere Frothingham Award and Richard Perkins Parker Award; 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, DC,
1981-89; Assistant U.S. Attorney, Washington, DC, 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. Edmund J. Randolph Award, U.S. Department of Justice, 1997.
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;
President, Board of Overseers, Harvard University, 2009-10, member,
2003-09; American Law Institute; U.S. Judicial Conference Executive
Committee, 2013-present, Committee on Judicial Security, 2008-13,
Committee on the Judicial Branch, 2001-05; appointed to the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on April 9, 1997.
KAREN LeCRAFT HENDERSON, circuit judge. [Biographical information
not supplied, per Judge Henderson's request.]
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 and 2006-11; appointed by President 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 17, 1994;
appointed by President Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit on March 18, 1994, and entered on duty
March 21, 1994; member of Executive Committee, Conference of Chief
Justices, 1993-94; member, U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on the
Codes of Conduct, 1998-2004.
DAVID S. TATEL, circuit judge; born in Washington, DC, March 16,
1942; son of Molly and Dr. Howard Tatel (both deceased); married to the
former Edith Bassichis, 1965; children: Rebecca, Stephanie, Joshua, and
Emily; grandchildren: Olivia, Maya, Olin, Reuben, Rae, Cameron, Ozzie,
and Daria; 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-
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2000; National Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, co-chair,
1989-91; board of directors, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching, (chair, 2005-09); member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, member of the American Philosophical Society, the National
Academy of Education, and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on
Science, Technology and Law; admitted to practice law in Illinois in
1966 and the District Columbia in 1970; appointed to the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President Clinton on
October 7, 1994, and entered on duty October 11, 1994.
JANICE ROGERS BROWN, circuit judge; born in Greenville, AL; B.A.,
California State University, 1974; J.D., UCLA School of Law, 1977;
LL.M., University of Virginia School of Law, 2004; Deputy Legislative
Counsel, Legislative Counsel Bureau, 1977-79; Deputy Attorney General,
California Department of Justice, 1979-87; Deputy Secretary and General
Counsel, California Business, Transportation, and Housing Agency, 1987-
90; Senior Associate, Nielsen, Merksamer, Parinello, Mueller and Naylor,
1990-91; Legal Affairs Secretary for Governor Pete Wilson, 1991-94;
Associate Justice, California Court of Appeals for the Third District,
1994-96; Associate Justice, California Supreme Court, 1996-2005;
appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit by President George W. Bush on June 10, 2005 and sworn in on
July 1, 2005.
THOMAS B. GRIFFITH, circuit judge; born in Yokohama, Japan, July 5,
1954; B.A., Brigham Young University, 1978; J.D., University of Virginia
School of Law, 1985; editor, Virginia Law Review; associate, Robinson,
Bradshaw and Hinson, Charlotte, NC, 1985-89; associate and then a
partner, Wiley, Rein and Fielding, Washington, DC, 1989-95 and 1999-
2000; Senate Legal Counsel of the United States, 1995-99; Assistant to
the President and General Counsel, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT,
2000-05; appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit on June 14, 2005 and sworn in on July 1,
2005.
BRETT M. KAVANAUGH, circuit judge; born in Washington, DC, February
12, 1965; son of Edward and Martha Kavanaugh; married to Ashley Estes;
two daughters; B.A., cum laude, Yale College, 1987; J.D., Yale Law
School, 1990; law clerk to Judge Walter Stapleton of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1990-91; law clerk for Judge Alex
Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1991-92;
attorney, Office of the Solicitor General of the United States, 1992-93;
law clerk to Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme
Court, 1993-94; Associate Counsel, Office of Independent Counsel, 1994-
97; partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, 1997-98, 1999-2001; Associate Counsel
and then Senior Associate Counsel to President George W. Bush, 2001-03;
Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary to President Bush, 2003-
06; Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, 2007;
Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, 2008-14; appointed to the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on May 30, 2006.
SRI SRINIVASAN, circuit judge; born in Chandigarh, India, February
23, 1967; son of Saroja and T.P. Srinivasan; two children; B.A. Stanford
University, 1989; J.D. Stanford Law School, 1995; M.B.A. Stanford
Graduate School of Business, 1995; law clerk to Judge J. Harvie
Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1995-
96; Bristow Fellow, Office of the Solicitor General of the United
States, 1996-97; law clerk to Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of
the U.S. Supreme Court, 1997-98; associate, O'Melveny & Myers LLP, 1998-
2002; Assistant to the Solicitor General, 2002-07; partner, O'Melveny &
Myers LLP, 2007-11; Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, 2009-10;
Principal Deputy Solicitor General, 2011-13; appointed to the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on May 24, 2013.
PATRICIA A. MILLETT, circuit judge; born in Dexter, MA, 1963; B.A.,
summa cum laude, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985;
Harvard Law School, 1988, magna cum laude; litigation associate, Miller
and Chevalier, 1988-90; law clerk, Judge Thomas Tang, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1990-92; appellate staff, U.S. Department
of Justice Civil Division, 1992-96; Assistant U.S. Solicitor General,
1996-2007; partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld, 2007-13; appointed
by President Obama to the United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit on December 10, 2013.
CORNELIA T.L. PILLARD, circuit judge; born in Cambridge, MA, 1961;
B.A. Yale College, magna cum laude, with distinction in History; J.D.,
Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, Editor, Harvard Women's Law
Journal, 1984-85; Book Review and Commentary Editor, Harvard Law Review;
law clerk to Judge Louis H. Pollak, U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, 1987-88; Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellowship,
American Civil Liberties Union, 1988-89; member of the Bars of New York
(1989), Massachusetts
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(1989), D.C. (1990); Assistant Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and
Education Fund, Inc., 1989-94; Assistant to the Solicitor General of the
United States, 1994-97; Assistant Professor, then Professor, Georgetown
University Law Center, 1997-2013; Deputy Assistant Attorney General,
Office of Legal Counsel, 1998-2000; Chair, American Bar Association
Scholars' Reading Group, Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary,
2005-06; Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies (London,
U.K.), 2006; Academic Co-Director and Professor, Center for
Transnational Legal Studies (London, U.K.), 2008-09; Advisory Board
(2003-11) and Faculty Co-Director (2011-13) Georgetown Law Supreme Court
Institute; member, Board of Directors, American Arbitration Association,
2005-13; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2012-
13; member, American Law Institute; appointed to the United States Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on December 2013.
ROBERT L. WILKINS, circuit judge; born in Muncie, IN, 1963, B.S.,
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1986, cum laude, Herman A. Moench
Distinguished Senior Commendation; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1989,
executive editor and comments editor of the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties
Law Review; law clerk to Judge Earl B. Gilliam of the U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of California, 1989-90; staff attorney,
Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, 1990-95; chief,
Special Litigation and Programs Division of Public Defender Service for
the District of Columbia, 1995-2000; president, National African
American Museum and Cultural Complex, Inc., 2000-02; partner, Venable
LLP, 2002-11; selected one of the ``90 Greatest Washington Lawyers of
the Last 30 Years'' by the Legal Times in 2008; selected one of the ``40
under 40 most successful young litigators in America'' by the National
Law Journal in 2002; named one of ``Washington's Top Lawyers: Criminal
Defense,'' 2004, Washingtonian magazine; named one of ``Washington's Top
Lawyers: Education,'' 2007, Washingtonian magazine; Honor Alumni Award,
2005, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Henry W. Edgerton Civil
Liberties Award, 2001, American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the
National Capital Area; Pro Bono Attorney of the Year, 2001, American
Civil Liberties Union of Maryland; ``Practitioner of the Year'' Award,
1999, University of Maryland Black Law Students Association; Nominee,
``Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty'' Award, 1999, American Civil Liberties
Union of Maryland; District of Columbia Access to Justice Commission
(2005-08); Board of Trustees, Public Defender Service for the District
of Columbia (2002-08); National Museum of African American History and
Culture Plan for Action Presidential Commission (chairman of the Site
and Building Committee) (2002-03); member, District of Columbia Advisory
Commission on Sentencing (1998-2000); member, District of Columbia
Truth-In-Sentencing Commission (1997-98); District of Columbia Juvenile
Justice Advisory Group (1998-2000); Federal Influence on Sentencing
Policy in the District of Columbia: An Oppressive and Dangerous
Experiment, 11 Fed. Sent. Rptr. 143-148 (Nov. / Dec. 1998); The South
African Legal System: Black Lawyer's Views, 7 TransAfrica Forum 9 (Fall
1990); Black Neighborhoods Becoming Black Cities: Group Empowerment,
Local Control and the Implications of Being Darker than Brown, 23 Harv.
C.R.--C.L. L. Rev. 415 (1988) (co-author); admitted to the bars of the
District of Columbia; Massachusetts; U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, U.S. District
Court for the District of Maryland, and U.S. District Court for the
Eastern District of Wisconsin; member, Judicial Conference of the United
States, Committee on Judicial Security, 2013-present; appointed to the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on December 27, 2010;
appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit on January 13, 2014.
SENIOR CIRCUIT JUDGES
HARRY T. EDWARDS, senior circuit judge; born in New York, NY,
November 3, 1940; son of George H. Edwards and Arline (Ross) Lyle;
married to Pamela Carrington-Edwards; children: Brent and Michelle;
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; co-author of five books: Labor Relations Law in the
Public Sector, The Lawyer as a Negotiator, Higher Education and the Law,
and Collective Bargaining and Labor Arbitration; and, most recently,
Edwards, Ellliot, and Levy, Federal Standards
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of Review (2d ed. 2013), 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; Recipient of the 2004 Robert J. Kutak Award, presented by
the American Bar Association Selection of Legal Education and Admission
to the Bar ``to a person who meets the highest standards of professional
responsibility and demonstrates substantial achievement toward increased
understanding between legal education and the active practice of law'',
and several Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees; Professor of Law at NYU
School of Law (member of faculty since 1990); has also taught part-time
at Duke, Georgetown, Michigan, Harvard Law, Pennsylvania, and University
of California Irvine Schools of Law; co-chair of the Forensics Science
Committee established by the National Academy of Sciences, 2006-09;
member of the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law at the National
Academy of Sciences; appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals, February
20, 1980; served as chief judge September 15, 1994 to July 16, 2001.
LAURENCE HIRSCH SILBERMAN, senior circuit judge; recipient of the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, June 19, 2008; born in York, PA, October
12, 1935; son of William Silberman and Anna (Hirsch); married to Rosalie
G. Gaull on April 28, 1957 (deceased), married Patricia Winn on January
5, 2008; 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; member, U.S. Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act Court of Review, 1996-2003; Adjunct
Professor of Law (Administrative Law and Labor Law) Georgetown Law
Center, 1987-94; 1997; Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University Law
School, 1995-96; Distinguished Visitor from the Judiciary, Georgetown
Law Center, 2003-present; co-chairman of the President's Commission on
The Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of
Mass Destruction, 2004-05; appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia Circuit by President Reagan on October 28,
1985.
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, senior circuit judge; born in New York, NY,
September 23, 1936; son of Charles Dickerman Williams and Virginia
(Fain); married to Faith Morrow, 1966; children: Susan, Geoffrey, Sarah,
Timothy, and Nicholas; 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; member, American Law Institute;
appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit by President Reagan, June 16, 1986.
DOUGLAS HOWARD GINSBURG, circuit judge; born in Chicago, IL, May 25,
1946; 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, 1973, 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, American Law and Economics
Association, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, American Bar Association,
Antitrust Section, Council, 1985-86 (ex officio), judicial liaison
(2000-03 and 2009-12); advisory boards: Competition Policy
International; Harvard Journal
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of Law and Public Policy; Journal of Competition Law and Economics; Law
and Economics Center, George Mason University School of Law; Supreme
Court Economic Review; University of Chicago Law Review; Board of
Directors: Foundation for Research in Economics and the Environment,
1991-2004; Rappahannock County Conservation Alliance, 1998-2004;
Rappahannock Association for Arts and Community, 1997-99; Committees:
Judicial Conference of the United States, 2002-08, Budget Committee,
1997-2001, Committee on Judicial Resources, 1987-96; Boston University
Law School, Visiting Committee, 1994-97; University of Chicago Law
School, Visiting Committee, 1985-88; 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, 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; lecturer in
law, Columbia University, New York City, 1987-88, 2009-11; lecturer in
law, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1988-89; distinguished professor
of law, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, 1988-present; senior
lecturer, University of Chicago Law School, 1990-present; lecturer on
law, New York Law School, 2005-09; Visiting Professor, Faculty of Laws,
University College, London, 2010-15; appointed to U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit by President Reagan on October 14,
1986, taking the oath of office on November 10, 1986, Chief Judge, 2001-
08.
DAVID BRYAN SENTELLE, circuit judge, born in Canton, NC, February
12, 1943; son of Horace and Maude Sentelle; married to Jane LaRue
Oldham; three daughters and four granddaughters; B.A., University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1965; J.D. with honors, University of
North Carolina School of Law, 1968; associate, Uzzell and Dumont,
Asheville, 1968-70; Assistant U.S. Attorney, Charlotte, 1970-74; North
Carolina State District Judge, 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. Adjunct professor,
University of North Carolina, Florida State, George Mason University,
and University of Georgia. Appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals by
President Reagan in October 1987; Chief Judge, 2008-13; assumed senior
status February 12, 2013. Member, U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on
Court Administration and Case Management, 1992; Presiding Judge, Special
Division of the Court for the Appointment of Independent Counsels, 1992-
2006; Member, Judicial Conference Committee on Code of Conduct, 2004-05;
Chair, Judicial Conference Committee on Judicial Security, 2005-08;
Member, Judicial Conference Executive Committee, 2008-13 (Chair 2010-
13); past President, Edward Bennett Williams Inn of the American Inns of
Court. Recipient, 2008 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award in
the DC Circuit.
A. RAYMOND RANDOLPH, senior 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; 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; appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit by President George H.W. Bush on
July 16, 1990, and took oath of office on July 20, 1990.
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Officers of the United States Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit
Circuit Executive.--Betsy Paret (202) 216-7340.
Clerk.--Mark J. Langer, 216-7300.
Chief Deputy Clerk.--Marilyn R. Sargent, 216-7300.
Director, Legal Division.--Melissa McKenney Ryan, 216-7500.