Congressional Directory for the 115th Congress (2017-2018), October 2018 Revision
[Pages 865-870]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


         UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT

           717 Madison Place, NW., 20439, phone (202) 275-8000

    SHARON PROST, chief judge; was appointed by President George W. Bush 
in 2001. Prior to her appointment, Judge Prost served as Minority Chief 
Counsel, Deputy Chief Counsel, and Chief Counsel of the Committee on the 
Judiciary, United States Senate from 1993 to 2001. She also served as 
Chief Labor Counsel (Minority), Senate Committee on Labor and Human 
Resources from 1989 to 1993. She was Assistant Solicitor, Associate 
Solicitor, and Acting Solicitor of the National Labor Relations Board 
from 1984 to 1989. She was an Attorney at the Internal Revenue Service 
from 1983 to 1984, and Field Attorney at the Federal Labor Relations 
Authority from 1980 to 1983. Judge Prost also served as Labor Relations 
Specialist / Auditor at the United States General Accounting Office from 
1976 to 1980 and Labor Relations Specialist at the United States Civil 
Service Commission from 1973 to 1976. Judge Prost received a B.S. from 
Cornell University in 1973, an M.B.A. from George Washington University 
in 1975, a J.D. from the Washington College of Law, American University 
in 1979, and an LL.M. from George Washington University School of Law in 
1984.

    PAULINE NEWMAN, circuit judge; was appointed by President Ronald 
Reagan in 1984. From 1982 to 1984, Judge Newman was Special Adviser to 
the United States Delegation to the Diplomatic Conference on the 
Revision of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial 
Property. She served on the advisory committee to the Domestic Policy 
Review of Industrial Innovation from 1978 to 1979 and on the State 
Department Advisory Committee on International Intellectual Property 
from 1974 to 1984. From 1969 to 1984, Judge Newman served as director, 
Patent, Trademark and Licensing Department, FMC Corp. From 1961 to 1962 
she worked for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural 
Organization as a science policy specialist in the Department of Natural 
Sciences. She served as patent attorney and house counsel of FMC Corp. 
from 1954 to 1969 and as research scientist, American Cyanamid Co. from 
1951 to 1954. Judge Newman received a B.A. from Vassar College in 1947, 
an M.A. from Columbia University in 1948, a Ph.D. from Yale University 
in 1952 and an LL.B. from New York University School of Law in 1958.

    ALAN D. LOURIE, circuit judge; was appointed to the United States 
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on April 6, 1990, by President 
George H.W. Bush. He was formerly Vice President, Corporate Patents and 
Trademarks, and Associate General Counsel of SmithKline Beecham 
Corporation. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 13, 1935, Judge 
Lourie received his Bachelor's degree from Harvard University (1956), 
his Master's degree in organic chemistry from the University of 
Wisconsin (1958), and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of 
Pennsylvania (1965). He received his J.D. degree from Temple University 
in 1970. Before being appointed to the court, Judge Lourie had been 
President of the Philadelphia Patent Law Association, a member of the 
Board of Directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association 
(formerly American Patent Law Association), treasurer of the Association 
of Corporate Patent Counsel, and a member of the board of directors of 
the Intellectual Property Owners Association. He was also 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. He was a member of the 
U.S. delegation to the Diplomatic Conference on the Revision of the 
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, held in 
Geneva in October and November 1982, and in March 1984. He was chairman 
of the Patent Committee of the Law Section of the Pharmaceutical 
Manufacturers Association from 1980 to 1985. Judge Lourie was awarded 
the Jefferson Medal of the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law 
Association for extraordinary contributions to the field of intellectual 
property law in 1998; was a recipient of the Intellectual Property 
Owners Education Foundation Distinguished Intellectual Property 
Professional Award for extraordinary leadership in the intellectual 
property community

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and a lifetime commitment to invention and innovation in 2008; was a 
recipient of the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association's 
Award for outstanding IP achievement in 2010; was a recipient of the 
Boston Patent Law Association's Distinguished Public Service Award in 
2011; was a recipient of a ``lifetime achievement'' award from The 
Sedona Conference in 2011; and recently was a recipient of NYIPLA's 10th 
Annual Outstanding Public Service Award in 2012. He was a member of the 
Judicial Conference Committee on Financial Disclosure from 1990 to 1998 
and has been a member of the Committee on Codes of Conduct since 2005. 
He is a member of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, 
the American Chemical Society, the Cosmos Club, and the Harvard Club of 
Washington. Judge Lourie is married and has two daughters and four 
grandchildren.

    TIMOTHY B. DYK, circuit judge; was appointed by President William J. 
Clinton in 2000. Prior to his appointment, Judge Dyk was Partner and 
Chair, Issues and Appeals Practice Area, at Jones, Day, Reavis and Pogue 
from 1990 to 2000. He was Adjunct Professor at Yale Law School from 1986 
to 1987 and 1989, at the University of Virginia Law School in 1984 and 
1985, and from 1987 to 1988, and at the Georgetown University Law Center 
in 1983, 1986, 1989 and 1991. Judge Dyk was Associate and Partner, 
Wilmer Cutler and Pickering from 1964 to 1990. From 1963 to 1964, Judge 
Dyk served as Special Assistant to Assistant Attorney General Louis F. 
Oberdorfer. He also served as Law Clerk to Chief Justice Warren from 
1962 to 1963, and to Justices Reed and Burton (retired) from 1961 to 
1962. Judge Dyk received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1958 and an 
LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1961. He was First President of the 
Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court from 2000 to 2001 and President of 
the Giles Sutherland Rich Inn of Court from 2006 to 2007. He was the 
recipient of the 2012 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for 
the Federal Circuit. Judge Dyk is the co-author of the Chapter on 
Patents in the Third Edition of the treatise, Business and Commercial 
Litigation in Federal Courts.

    KIMBERLY A. MOORE, circuit judge; was appointed by President George 
W. Bush in 2006. Prior to her appointment, Judge Moore was a Professor 
of Law from 2004-06 and Associate Professor of Law from 2000 to 2004 at 
the George Mason University School of Law. She was an Assistant 
Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law from 1999 
to 2000. She served both as an Assistant Professor of Law from 1997 to 
1999 and the Associate Director of the Intellectual Property Law Program 
from 1998 to 1999 at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Judge Moore 
clerked from 1995 to 1997 for the Honorable Glenn L. Archer, Jr., Chief 
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and 
was an Associate at Kirkland and Ellis from 1994 to 1995. From 1988 to 
1992, Judge Moore was employed in electrical engineering with the Naval 
Surface Warfare Center. Judge Moore received her B.S.E.E. in 1990, M.S. 
in 1991, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her 
J.D., cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1994. Judge 
Moore has written and presented widely on patent litigation. She co-
authored a legal casebook entitled Patent Litigation and Strategy and 
served as the Editor of The Federal Circuit Bar Journal from 1998 to 
2006.

    KATHLEEN M. O'MALLEY, circuit judge; was appointed to the United 
States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack 
Obama in 2010. Prior to her elevation to the Federal Circuit, Judge 
O'Malley was appointed to the United States District Court for the 
Northern District of Ohio by President William J. Clinton on October 12, 
1994. Judge O'Malley served as First Assistant Attorney General and 
Chief of Staff for Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher from 1992-94, and 
Chief Counsel to Attorney General Fisher from 1991-92. From 1985-91, she 
worked for Porter, Wright, Morris and Arthur, where she became a 
partner. From 1983-84, she was an associate at Jones, Day, Reavis and 
Pogue. During her sixteen years on the district court bench, Judge 
O'Malley presided over in excess of 100 patent and trademark cases and 
sat by designation on the United States Circuit Court for the Federal 
Circuit. As an educator, Judge O'Malley has regularly taught a course on 
Patent Litigation at Case Western Reserve University Law School; she is 
a member of the faculty of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology's 
program designed to educate Federal Judges regarding the handling of 
intellectual property cases. Judge O'Malley serves as a board member of 
the Sedona Conference; as the judicial liaison to the Local Patent Rules 
Committee for the Northern District of Ohio; and as an advisor to 
national organizations publishing treatises on patent litigation 
(Anatomy of a Patent Case, Complex Litigation Committee of the American 
College of Trial Lawyers; Patent Case Management Judicial Guide, 
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology). Judge O'Malley began her legal 
career as a law clerk to the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, Sixth Circuit 
Court of Appeals in 1982-83. She received her J.D. degree from Case 
Western Reserve University School of Law, Order of the Coif, in 1982, 
where she served on Law Review and was a member

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of the National Mock Trial Team. Judge O'Malley attended Kenyon College 
in Gambier, Ohio where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa 
in 1979.

    JIMMIE V. REYNA, circuit judge; was appointed to the United States 
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack Obama in 
2011. Prior to his appointment, Judge Reyna was an international trade 
attorney and shareholder at Williams Mullen, where, from 1998 to 2011, 
he directed the firm's Trade and Customs Practice Group and its Latin 
America Task Force, and served on its board of directors (2006-08, 2009-
11). He was an associate and partner at the law firm of Stewart and 
Stewart (1986-98). From 1981 to 1986, Judge Reyna was a solo 
practitioner in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, prior to that, an associate 
at Shaffer, Butt, Thornton and Baehr, also in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 
Judge Reyna served on the U.S. roster of dispute settlement panelists 
for trade disputes under Chapter 19 of the North American Free Trade 
Agreement, and the U.S. Indicative List of Non-Governmental Panelists 
for the World Trade Organization, Dispute Settlement Mechanism, for both 
trade in goods and trade in services. Judge Reyna is the author of two 
books, Passport to North American Trade: Rules of Origin and Customs 
Procedures Under the NAFTA (Shepards 1995), and The GATT Uruguay Round, 
A Negotiating History: Services, 1986-92 (Kluwer 1993) and numerous 
articles on international trade and customs issues. He was the founder 
and Senior Co-Editor of the Hispanic National Bar Association Journal of 
Law and Policy. Judge Reyna is a recipient of the Ohtli Award (the 
highest honor bestowed by the Mexican Government for non-Mexican 
citizens). Other awards include: 100 Influentials, Hispanic Business 
Magazine, 2011; 101 Latino Leaders in America, Latino Leaders Magazine, 
2011 and 2012; Minority Business Leader, Washington Business Journal; 
Extraordinary Leadership, Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA); 
Lifetime Honorary Membership, Society of Hispanic Professional 
Engineers; Distinguished Citizen Award, Military Airlift Command, U.S. 
Air Force; Spirit of Excellence Award, Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of 
Commerce. Judge Reyna served over a decade of leadership in the HNBA, 
including as National President (2006-07). He served in various 
leadership positions in the ABA Sections on International Law and 
Dispute Settlement. He was a founder and member of the board of 
directors of the U.S. Mexico Law Institute, and the Community Services 
for Autistic Adults and Children Foundation. He currently serves on the 
Nationwide Hispanic Advisory Council of Big Brothers Big Sisters of 
America. He received a B.A. from the University of Rochester in 1975 and 
a J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 1978.

    EVAN J. WALLACH, circuit judge; was appointed to the United States 
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack Obama in 
2011, confirmed by the Senate on November 9, 2011, and assumed the 
duties of his office on November 18, 2011. Prior to his appointment, he 
served for sixteen years as a judge of the United States Court of 
International Trade, having been appointed to that court by President 
William J. Clinton in 1995. Judge Wallach worked as a general litigation 
partner with an emphasis on media representation at the law firm of 
Lionel Sawyer and Collins in Las Vegas, Nevada from 1982 to 1995. He was 
an associate at the same firm from 1976 to 1982. While working with the 
firm, Judge Wallach took a leave of absence to serve as General Counsel 
and Public Policy Advisor to Senator Harry Reid from 1987 to 1988. From 
1989 to 1995, he served in the Nevada National Guard as a Judge 
Advocate. In 1991, while on leave from his firm, he served as an 
Attorney / Advisor in the International Affairs Division of the Judge 
Advocate of the Army at the Pentagon. Judge Wallach, a recognized expert 
in the law of war, has taught at a number of law schools, including 
Brooklyn Law School, New York Law School, George Mason University School 
of Law, and the University of Muenster in Munster, Germany. Judge 
Wallach has received a number of awards, including: the ABA Liberty Bell 
Award in 1993; the Nevada Press Association President's Award in 1994; 
and the Clark County School Librarians Intellectual Freedom Award in 
1995. Judge Wallach served on active duty in the Army of the United 
States from 1969 to 1971. During his military career, he was awarded the 
Bronze Star, the Air Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the Meritorious 
Service Medal, the Nevada Medal of Merit, the Valorous Unit Citation, a 
Vietnam Campaign Medal, and the RVN Cross of Gallantry with Palm. Judge 
Wallach received his B.A. in Journalism from the University of Arizona 
in 1973, his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976, 
and an LLB with honors in International Law from Cambridge University in 
1981.

    RICHARD G. TARANTO, circuit judge; was appointed to the United 
States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack H. 
Obama, in 2013, confirmed by the Senate on March 11, 2013 and assumed 
the duties of his office on March 15, 2013. Judge Taranto practiced law 
with the firm of Farr and Taranto from 1989 to 2013, where he 
specialized in appellate litigation. From 1986 to 1989, he served as an 
Assistant to the Solicitor General, representing the United States in 
the Supreme Court. He was in private

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practice from 1984 to 1986 with the law firm of Onek, Klein and Farr. 
Judge Taranto served as a law clerk at all three levels of the federal 
court system. He clerked for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme 
Court of the United States from 1983 to 1984; for Judge Robert Bork of 
the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit 
from 1982 to 1983; and for Judge Abraham Sofaer of the United States 
District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1981 to 1982. 
Judge Taranto received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1981 and a B.A. 
from Pomona College in 1977.

    RAYMOND T. CHEN, circuit judge; was appointed to the United States 
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack H. Obama in 
2013, confirmed by the Senate on August 1, 2013 and assumed his office 
on August 5, 2013. Judge Chen served as Deputy General Counsel for 
Intellectual Property Law and Solicitor at the United States Patent and 
Trademark Office from 2008 to 2013. He was an Associate Solicitor in 
that office from 1998 to 2008. From 1996 to 1998, Judge Chen served as a 
Technical Assistant at the United States Court of Appeals for the 
Federal Circuit. Before joining the court staff, Judge Chen was an 
associate with Knobbe, Martens, Olson and Bear from 1994 to 1996. Before 
entering law school, Judge Chen worked as a scientist at the law firm of 
Hecker and Harriman from 1989 to 1991. Judge Chen received his J.D. from 
the New York University School of Law in 1994 and his B.S. in Electrical 
Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1990.

    TODD M. HUGHES, circuit judge; was appointed to the United States 
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack H. Obama in 
2013, confirmed by the Senate on September 24, 2013 and assumed the 
duties of his office on September 30, 2013. Judge Hughes served as 
Deputy Director of the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil 
Division of the United States Department of Justice from 2007 to 2013. 
He was the Assistant Director in that office from 1999 to 2007 and a 
Trial Attorney from 1994 to 1999. From 1992 to 1994, Judge Hughes served 
as a Law Clerk to Circuit Judge Robert Krupansky of the United States 
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He was an Adjunct Lecturer in 
Law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law during the Spring, 1994 
semester. Judge Hughes received a J.D. from Duke Law School in 1992, an 
M.A. from Duke University in 1992, and an A.B. from Harvard College in 
1989.

    KARA FARNANDEZ STOLL, circuit judge; was appointed to the United 
States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack H. 
Obama on November 12, 2014, was confirmed unanimously by the United 
States Senate on July 7, 2015, and assumed her duties on July 17, 2015. 
Judge Stoll practiced law with the firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, 
Garrett and Dunner from 1998 to 2015, and became a partner at the firm 
in 2006. While in private practice, Judge Stoll specialized in patent 
litigation with an emphasis on appeals. Judge Stoll was an adjunct 
professor at George Mason University Law School from 2008 to 2015 and at 
the Howard University School of Law from 2004 to 2008. From 1997 to 
1998, Judge Stoll served as a law clerk to The Honorable Alvin A. Schall 
of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Judge 
Stoll worked as a patent examiner at the United States Patent and 
Trademark Office from 1991 to 1997. Judge Stoll received a J.D. from the 
Georgetown University School of Law in 1997, where she received the Leon 
Robin Patent Award, and a B.S.E.E. from Michigan State University in 
1991.

                          SENIOR CIRCUIT JUDGES

    HALDANE ROBERT MAYER, circuit judge; has been a member of the court 
since 1987. He served as Chief Judge from 1997 to 2004. Born in Buffalo, 
Judge Mayer was educated in the public schools of Lockport, New York, 
before attending the United States Military Academy at West Point, from 
which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1963. He earned 
a law degree in 1971 at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law of The College 
of William and Mary, where he was editor-in-chief of the William and 
Mary Law Review as well as a member of Omicron Delta Kappa National 
Leadership Society. He has served as a director of the William and Mary 
Law School Association. Judge Mayer served on active duty in the Army of 
the United States from 1963 until 1975 in the Infantry and the Judge 
Advocate General's Corps. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, the 
Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf 
Cluster, the Combat Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge, Ranger Tab, 
RVN Ranger Combat Badge, and several campaign and service ribbons. He 
resigned his Regular Army commission to take an Army Reserve commission, 
retiring in 1985 as a lieutenant colonel. In 1971, Judge Mayer served as 
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law clerk for Judge John D. Butzner, Jr., of the United States Court of 
Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, VA. He practiced law in 
Charlottesville, VA, in the mid-1970's, simultaneously serving as an 
adjunct at the University of Virginia School of Law, as he did again in 
the 1990's. He has also been an adjunct at George Washington University 
National Law Center. From 1977 through 1980, Judge Mayer was the Special 
Assistant to the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren E. Burger, 
after which he returned to private law practice in Washington, DC, until 
he became Deputy and Acting Special Counsel (by designation of the 
President). President Ronald Reagan appointed Judge Mayer to what is now 
the United States Court of Federal Claims in 1982, and to the United 
States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1987. He assumed 
senior status on June 30, 2010.

    S. JAY PLAGER, circuit judge; was appointed Circuit Judge by 
President George H.W. Bush in 1989. Prior to his appointment, Judge 
Plager served in the Executive Office of the President from 1987 to 
1989, as Associate Director of OMB and as Administrator, OIRA. He served 
as Counselor to the Under Secretary, Department of Health and Human 
Services from 1986 to 1987. Judge Plager was Dean and Professor, Indiana 
University School of Law from 1977 to 1984. He was Professor, Faculty of 
Law, University of Illinois from 1964 to 1977, and from 1958 to 1964 was 
Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Florida. Judge Plager was 
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Law School from 1984 to 1985, 
Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, and Visiting Professor, Cambridge 
University in 1980, and Visiting Research Professor of Law, University 
of Wisconsin from 1967 to 1968. Judge Plager served on active duty in 
the United States Navy during the Korean Conflict. Judge Plager grew up 
in New Jersey, where he attended public schools. In 1952, he received an 
A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina, a J.D. in 1958 from 
the University of Florida, with high honors, where he was editor-in-
chief of the Florida Law Review, and in 1961 an LL.M. from Columbia 
University. He has three children. Judge Plager assumed senior status in 
2000.

    RAYMOND C. CLEVENGER III, circuit judge; was appointed by President 
George H.W. Bush in 1990. Judge Clevenger received a B.A. from Yale 
University in 1959. As a Carnegie Teaching Fellow, he taught European 
History at Yale College in the 1959-60 academic year. From 1960 to 1963, 
he was employed by the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in New York City. 
He received an LL.B. from Yale University in 1966. Judge Clevenger 
served as a law clerk to Mr. Justice White in October Term 1966. Judge 
Clevenger joined Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering in 1967, serving as a 
partner in the firm from 1974 until his appointment to the bench. Judge 
Clevenger assumed senior status on February 1, 2006.

    ALVIN A. SCHALL, circuit judge; was appointed by President George 
H.W. Bush in 1992. Prior to his appointment, Judge Schall served as 
Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States from 1988 to 
1992. He was a member of the Washington, DC law firm of Perlman and 
Partners from 1987 to 1988. He served as Trial Attorney and Senior Trial 
Counsel, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, from 1978 
to 1987. Judge Schall was an Assistant United States Attorney, Office of 
the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, from 
1973 to 1978, and served as Chief of the Appeals Division from 1977 to 
1978. From 1969 to 1973, Judge Schall was in private practice with the 
New York City law firm of Shearman and Sterling. Judge Schall received a 
B.A. degree from Princeton University in 1966 and a J.D. degree from 
Tulane Law School in 1969. Judge Schall assumed senior status on October 
5, 2009.

    WILLIAM C. BRYSON, circuit judge; was appointed by President William 
J. Clinton in 1994. Prior to his appointment, Judge Bryson was with the 
United States Department of Justice from 1978 to 1994. During that 
period, he served as an Assistant to the Solicitor General [1978-79], 
Chief of the Appellate Section of the Criminal Division [1979-83], 
Counsel to the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section [1983-86], 
Deputy Solicitor General [1986-94], Acting Solicitor General [1989 and 
1993], and Acting Associate Attorney General [1994]. He was an Associate 
at the Washington, DC law firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca and Lewin 
from 1975 to 1978. Judge Bryson served as Law Clerk to the Honorable 
Henry J. Friendly, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 
from 1973 to 1974, and as Law Clerk to the Honorable Thurgood Marshall, 
Supreme Court of the United States, from 1974 to 1975. Judge Bryson 
received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1969 and a J.D. from the 
University of Texas School of Law in 1973.

    RICHARD LINN, circuit judge; was appointed by President William J. 
Clinton in 1999. Prior to his appointment, Judge Linn was a Partner and 
Practice Group Leader at the Washington, DC law firm of Foley and 
Lardner from 1997 to 1999. He was a Partner and head of the intellectual 
property department at Marks and Murase, LLP from 1977 to 1997.

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Judge Linn served as Patent Advisor, United States Naval Air Systems 
Command from 1971 to 1972, was a Patent Agent at the United States Naval 
Research Laboratory from 1968 to 1969, and served as a Patent Examiner 
at the United States Patent Office from 1965 to 1968. He was a member of 
the founding Board of Governors of the Virginia Bar Section on Patent, 
Trademark, and Copyright Law and served as Chairman in 1975. In 2000, 
Judge Linn received the Rensselaer Alumni Association Fellows Award. He 
was honored in 2006 for dedication, service, and devotion to justice by 
the Austin Intellectual Property Law Association. Judge Linn was awarded 
the 2009 New York Intellectual Property Law Association Leadership 
Award. He also received the 2009 Jefferson Medal from the New Jersey 
Intellectual Property Law Association ``in recognition of meritorious 
and outstanding contributions in support of the Constitution of the 
United States of America and furtherance of a fundamental principle 
thereof--`to promote the progress of Science and useful Arts.' '' In 
2010, Judge Linn received the Outstanding Public Service Award from the 
New York Intellectual Property Law Association. In 2011, he was awarded 
the inaugural Mark Banner Award by the American Bar Association for his 
contributions to intellectual property law and the A. Sherman 
Christensen Award by the American Inns of Court Foundation for 
distinguished, exceptional and significant leadership to the American 
Inns of Court movement. He served as an Adjunct Professor and 
Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University Law School 
from 2001 to 2003, and currently serves on the Law School's Intellectual 
Property Advisory Board. Judge Linn is a past president of the Giles 
Sutherland Rich American Inn of Court, a member of the Richard Linn 
American Inn of Court, a visiting member of the Hon. William C. Conner 
American Inn of Court, and an honorary lifetime member of the Benjamin 
Franklin American Inn of Court. He received a B.E.E. from Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute in 1965, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law 
Center in 1969.

             Officers of the United States Court of Appeals
                          for the Federal Circuit

    Circuit Executive and Clerk of Court.--Peter R. Marksteiner (202) 
        275-8020.
    General Counsel.--J. Douglas Steere, 275-8080.
    Circuit Librarian.--John D. Moore, 275-8403.
    Chief Deputy Clerk.--Jarrett B. Perlow, 275-8021.
    Director of Information Technology.--Mona Harrington, 275-8420.
    Deputy Circuit Executive and Operations Officer.--Dale Bosley, 275-
        8141.