    Congressional Directory for the 117th Congress (2021-2022), October 2022.
    [Pages 888-894]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                      UNITED STATES COURT OF FEDERAL CLAIMS

          Lafayette Square, 717 Madison Place, NW., Washington, DC 20439

                               phone (202) 357-6406

         ELAINE D. KAPLAN, chief 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; designated chief
    judge by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. on March 3, 2021.

         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 (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 to March 13, 2017.

         RICHARD A. HERTLING, judge; confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as
    a judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims in June 2019. Born
    and raised in New York City, he graduated from Brown University and
    received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. He is
    admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia. Upon
    graduating from law school, Judge Hertling clerked for Judge Henry A.
    Politz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in
    1985-86. Following his clerkship, he was hired through the Attorney
    General's Honors Program and served as a Trial Attorney in the Federal
    Programs Branch of the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice,
    litigating constitutional and regulatory cases, from 1986 until January
    1990. In January 1990, Judge Hertling began his Capitol Hill career,
    serving on the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee as minority chief
    counsel of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and the Subcommittee on
    Technology and the Law, and as chief counsel of the Subcommittee on
    Terrorism, Technology and Government Information, while also serving as
    chief counsel to Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA). Subsequently, Judge
    Hertling became senior counsel to the Senate Governmental Affairs
    Committee, while also handling Judiciary Committee and other legal
    issues for its chairman, Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN). Following that
    position, he became chief of staff to newly elected Senator Peter
    Fitzgerald (R-IL), and then returned to the Governmental Affairs
    Committee as minority staff director. Upon the retirement of Senator
    Thompson, Judge Hertling served as deputy chief of staff and legislative
    director to newly elected Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN). In July 2003,
    Judge Hertling was appointed Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Legal
    Policy at the Department of Justice and in 2005 was named the Principal
    Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy. In 2007, he was
    appointed Acting Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs at
    the Department of Justice. Judge Hertling was appointed minority deputy
    chief of staff and policy director of the House Judiciary Committee in
    2008, becoming the committee's staff director and chief counsel in 2012.
    In 2013, Judge Hertling joined a prominent Washington law firm as of
    counsel in its public policy group and practiced at the firm until his
    appointment to the court.

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         RYAN T. HOLTE judge; confirmed by the U.S. Senate in June 2019 and
    sworn in as a judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims in July
    2019. Prior to confirmation he served as the David L. Brennan Professor
    of Law and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and
    Technology at The University of Akron School of Law (2017-19) and an
    assistant professor of law at Southern Illinois University School of Law
    (2013-17). He was the recipient of multiple research fellowships on
    patent law topics, including awards from the George Mason University
    School of Law and Case Western Reserve University School of Law. As an
    academic, Judge Holte taught a wide variety of courses, including all
    intellectual property subjects and property law. Judge Holte has written
    and presented widely on patent law subjects and empirical legal studies
    of Federal Circuit and district court patent law cases. His most recent
    articles were published in the Iowa Law Review (2019), George Mason Law
    Review (2018), and Washington Law Review (2017). In practice, Judge
    Holte served for six years as general counsel and partner of an
    electrical engineering technology company and is co-inventor of two
    patents related to Systems and Methods for Countering Satellite-
    Navigated Munitions (originally held under U.S. Army Secrecy Order until
    June 2016). Prior to entering academia, Judge Holte practiced as a
    litigation attorney at the Federal Trade Commission, an associate in the
    Intellectual Property Practice Group at Jones Day, and a patent
    prosecutor at Finnegan. Prior to practice, he served as a law clerk to
    Judge Stanley F. Birch, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for
    the Eleventh Circuit and as a law clerk to Judge Loren A. Smith on the
    United States Court of Federal Claims. While in practice, Judge Holte
    represented numerous pro bono clients on IP matters and served as lead
    court-appointed habeas corpus counsel in the United States Court of
    Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Judge Holte also served in intellectual
    property bar leadership positions on the Atlanta IP Inn of Court
    (Executive Committee), and the State Bar of Georgia (IP Section
    Trademark Committee Chair). Before law practice, Judge Holte owned a car
    dealership in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in biodiesel
    vehicles and worked as an engineer for Agilent Technologies / Hewlett
    Packard in Sonoma County, California. Judge Holte received his J.D. from
    the University of California Davis School of Law where he served as a
    staff editor of the UC Davis Business Law Journal. He received his BS,
    magna cum laude, in engineering from the California Maritime Academy
    where he was a First Class graduate of the Corps of Cadets Third
    Engineering Division and sailed as a U.S. Merchant Marine oiler. Judge
    Holte is the recipient of the 2018 California Maritime Academy
    Distinguished Alumnus award. Judge Holte is married and the proud father
    of two young children. He has been active for many years in various
    church and community organizations and his outside interests include
    classic car and truck restoration, motorcycle riding, and chasing after
    his kids.

         DAVID AUSTIN TAPP, judge; confirmed on November 5, 2019 by the U.S.
    Senate as Judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Prior to
    confirmation, Judge Tapp served 15 years as Judge of the 28th Circuit
    and District of the Kentucky Court of Justice. He holds a Juris
    Doctorate from the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, a
    Master of Science from Chaminade University of Honolulu, and a Bachelor
    of Arts from Morehead State University. Judge Tapp is a frequent
    presenter and author on a wide variety of civil and criminal issues
    including court culture, judicial stress, court-targeted acts of
    violence, evidence, electronically stored information, and civil and
    criminal procedure. He previously served as a law enforcement officer,
    prosecutor, private counsel, and adjunct professor of law. Judge Tapp's
    efforts on a variety of justice-related issues have been well-
    recognized. In 2011, Judge Tapp received the ``All Rise'' Award from the
    National Association of Drug Court Professionals for his efforts related
    to funding issues for substance abuse treatment courts. Most recently,
    Judge Tapp's drug court team became one of only 15 drug courts (out of
    2,700 worldwide) to receive the NADCP's Community Transformation Award
    for his team's continuing efforts to provide meaningful substance abuse
    treatment. Judge Tapp was also the lead judge for Kentucky's efforts to
    explore the use of extended-release injectable naltrexone as part of a
    comprehensive opiate treatment strategy. Judge Tapp currently serves as
    a policy advisor to the 2020 RX Drug and Heroin Abuse Summit, the
    nation's largest conference addressing opioid-related issues. Until his
    confirmation, he served on the U.S. Coordinating Council on Juvenile
    Justice and Delinquency Prevention which reports to the President and
    Congress through the U.S. Department of Justice and provides advice
    regarding programming and intervention strategies for the nation's
    justice-involved children. Judge Tapp previously served six years as
    Chairperson of Kentucky's Circuit Judges Education Committee where he
    directed the continuing education of all general jurisdiction and family
    court judges within Kentucky. He also acted as Kentucky's Co-Chairperson
    of the Judicial Child Fatality Task Force which focused on awareness
    issues surrounding fatal and near-fatal events involving children within
    the judicial and child protective system, and as a member of Kentucky's
    Criminal Justice Policy Assessment Council, a statewide group tasked
    with evaluation of the Commonwealth's justice practices.

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         MATTHEW H. SOLOMSON judge; confirmed by the U.S. Senate in January
    2020, and entered on duty at the court on February 4, 2020. The son of a
    retired U.S. Army colonel, Judge Solomson lived in eight states before
    starting high school in Maryland, where he currently resides with his
    family. He completed a B.A. in Economics, cum laude, from Brandeis
    University. In 2002, Judge Solomson graduated, with honors and Order of
    the Coif, from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of
    Law, and earned an M.B.A. (with a concentration in accounting) from the
    University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business. Judge
    Solomson is the author of Court of Federal Claims: Jurisdiction,
    Practice, and Procedure, a legal treatise first published by Bloomberg
    BNA in 2016. Prior to joining the court, Judge Solomson served as Chief
    Legal & Compliance Officer for an $11B federal contracting business unit
    of a Fortune 50 healthcare company. In that role, Judge Solomson managed
    a team of attorneys, compliance professionals, and internal auditors. He
    also previously led the government contracts practice group within the
    in-house law department of Booz Allen Hamilton, while serving as the
    principal government contracts counsel to the company's intelligence
    business unit. Judge Solomson's private practice experience includes
    having served as Counsel in the government contracts and litigation
    practice groups of Sidley Austin LLP, and as an Associate with Arnold &
    Porter LLP, both in Washington, D.C. In addition to his private sector
    experience, Judge Solomson was a Trial Attorney with the Commercial
    Litigation Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he
    represented a variety of military and civilian agencies as counsel of
    record in dozens of cases before the National Courts, which include the
    U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the U.S. Court of International Trade, and
    the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Following law school,
    Judge Solomson served as a law clerk to Judge Francis M. Allegra of the
    U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Since 2008, Judge Solomson has served as
    Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey
    School of Law, where he teaches government contracts law. He is a member
    of the Maryland and DC bars, and previously was an officer of the Court
    of Federal Claims Bar Association. Judge Solomson enjoys studying
    Talmud, playing tennis, and spending time at the beach with his family.

         ELENI M. ROUMEL, judge; appointed Judge of the United States Court
    of Federal Claims on February 24, 2020. She previously served as the
    Deputy Counsel to Vice President Mike Pence from 2018-20. Prior to her
    tenure at the White House, she served from 2012-18 as Assistant General
    Counsel in the U.S. House of Representatives Office of General Counsel.
    While serving in the House Office of General Counsel she advised and
    represented the U.S. House of Representatives, Members of Congress, and
    congressional staff in federal trial and appellate courts across the
    country. Judge Roumel previously was a partner with Nelson Mullins Riley
    & Scarborough, LLP, in Charleston, South Carolina, and before that
    practiced at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, LLP and Skadden Arps
    Slate Meagher & Flom, LLP in New York City. She also was an adjunct
    professor at the Charleston School of Law, where she taught intellectual
    property law. Judge Roumel served as a law clerk to the Honorable
    William H. Pauley III, United States District Judge for the Southern
    District of New York, from 2002-04. Judge Roumel has practiced before 26
    different federal and state courts during her nearly 20 years of law
    practice. A native of Maryland, Judge Roumel received her J.D., magna
    cum laude, in 2000 from Tulane Law School, where she graduated Order of
    the Coif and was an editor of the Tulane Law Review. Judge Roumel also
    received her M.B.A. from Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of
    Business in 2000. She earned her bachelor of arts degree, cum laude,
    from Wake Forest University in 1996. Chief judge from October 19, 2020
    to March 2, 2021.

         EDWARD H. MEYERS, judge; appointed Judge of the United States Court
    of Federal Claims on October 20, 2020. Prior to his appointment, he was
    a partner with Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner LLP from 2012-20. Before
    joining Stein Mitchell, he was an associate at the Washington, D.C.
    office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP from 2006-12. While in private practice,
    Judge Meyers focused on complex civil litigation and tried cases in
    state and federal courts across the country. From 2005-06, Judge Meyers
    served as a law clerk to the Honorable Loren A. Smith, Senior Judge of
    the United States Court of Federal Claims. Judge Meyers was born and
    raised in Washington, D.C. He received his J.D., summa cum laude, from
    The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law. He received
    the John L. Garvey Faculty Award, which is awarded to the graduate with
    the highest academic average, and was an associate editor of the
    Catholic University Law Review. Judge Meyers received his B.A. from
    Vanderbilt University.

         KATHRYN C. DAVIS, judge; appointed to the United States Court of
    Federal Claims in December 2020. Prior to her appointment, Judge Davis
    served in the Federal Programs Branch in the Civil Division of the U.S.
    Department of Justice, joining in 2008 as a Trial Attorney and rising to
    the position of Senior Trial Counsel. Her work at the Federal Programs

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    Branch focused primarily on defending federal agencies in suits raising
    complex issues of constitutional and administrative law. During her
    tenure at the Justice Department, Judge Davis received the Attorney
    General's Distinguished Service Award for her work on district court
    litigation related to the 2013 Federal Government shutdown and a Civil
    Division Special Commendation Award for her work on the Guantanamo Bay
    detainee litigation. Since 2018, she also has served as a Professorial
    Lecturer in Law at the George Washington University Law School. From
    2005-08, Judge Davis was in private practice in Philadelphia. Judge
    Davis received her B.S. in Business Administration from Boston
    University in 2001, and her J.D., cum laude, from Temple University
    Beasley School of Law in 2005.

          THOMPSON M. DIETZ, judge; appointed Judge of the United States
    Court of Federal Claims on December 22, 2020. Prior to his appointment,
    Judge Dietz served as associate counsel at a national accounting firm
    based in Roseland, New Jersey, where his practice focused on government
    contracts, commercial contracts, and regulatory and compliance matters.
    With almost a decade in the accounting industry, he has provided counsel
    with respect to diverse legal and regulatory matters. He also served as
    lead counsel for the firm's government and public sector group and data
    security and privacy matters. Before his time in the accounting
    industry, Judge Dietz worked in the contracts group of a large defense
    contractor, where he was involved in the negotiation and management of
    federal government contracts relating to significant military system
    design and development programs. Judge Dietz received a Certificate of
    Commendation from the United States Marine Corps for his contributions.
    Judge Dietz is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. He earned his B.A.
    from Clemson University and J.D. from Tulane Law School. He is married
    and has three daughters.

         ZACHARY N. SOMERS, judge; appointed Judge of the United States
    Court of Federal Claims on December 22, 2020, by President Donald J.
    Trump. Prior to his appointment, Judge Somers served as Chief
    Investigative Counsel to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary under
    Chairman Lindsey Graham. Before moving to the Senate, he served for over
    a decade on the House Committee on the Judiciary under Chairmen Lamar
    Smith and Bob Goodlatte, in multiple positions, including as the
    Committee's General Counsel & Parliamentarian and as Deputy Chief
    Counsel for the Subcommittee on the Constitution. Prior to his work on
    Capitol Hill, Judge Somers worked at a boutique law firm that
    specializes in litigation before the Court of Federal Claims. He served
    as a law clerk to Judge Victor Wolski on the Court of Federal Claims. A
    native of Washington, D.C., Judge Somers earned his A.B. from Georgetown
    University and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he
    served as Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public
    Policy.

         STEPHEN S. SCHWARTZ, judge; appointed Judge of the United States
    Court of Federal Claims on December 22, 2020. Judge Schwartz graduated
    from Yale College in 2005. He received his J.D. from the University of
    Chicago Law School, where he was Online Editor of the University of
    Chicago Law Review and a Hinton Moot Court finalist. He clerked for
    Judge Jerry E. Smith on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
    Following his clerkship, Judge Schwartz was a litigation associate at
    D.C. law firm, focusing his practice on appellate and administrative law
    matters. He then joined a non-profit where he litigated cases related to
    federal government transparency and administrative agency discretion. In
    2016 he joined a D.C. litigation boutique where he represented state and
    local governments in complex trial court and appellate proceedings,
    becoming a partner in 2017. A native of Winona, Minnesota, he lives with
    his family in Arlington, Virginia.

                                   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.

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         LOREN A. SMITH, senior judge; born in Chicago, IL, 1944; married to
    Catherine Yore Smith; two sons; attended Northwestern University (BA
    1966) and Northwestern University School of Law (J.D. 1969); admitted to
    practice Supreme Court of Illinois, federal courts in Washington, DC;
    consultant at Sidley & 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 for
    the District of Columbia (1974-75); professor of law, Delaware Law
    School (1976-84); deputy director of the Executive Branch Management
    Office of Presidential Transition (1980-81); chairman of the
    Administrative Conference of the United States (1981-1985); adjunct
    professor of law at George Mason University School of Law; Washington
    College of Law, American University; Georgetown University Law Center;
    Columbus School of Law, The Catholic University of America; nominated to
    the U.S. Court of Federal Claims by President Reagan on May 15, 1985;
    and assumed duties of the office on July 11, 1985; served as chief judge
    from January 14, 1986 to July 11, 2000.

         MARIAN BLANK HORN, senior 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.

         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.

         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 to 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

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    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.

         CHARLES F. LETTOW, senior 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; 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; 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, senior 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, senior 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.

         MARGARET M. SWEENEY, senior 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

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    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; designated Chief judge
    by President Donald J. Trump from July 13, 2018 to October 18, 2020.