Congressional Directory for the 117th Congress (2021-2022), October 2022. [Pages 866-870] [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., Washington, DC 20001 phone (202) 216-7300 SRI SRINIVASAN, chief circuit judge; born in Chandigarh, India, February 23, 1967; son of Saroja and T.P. Srinivasan; two children; B.A., Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, 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; Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, 2015- present; member, U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, 2017-20; appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on May 24, 2013. 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 Edith Tatel, nee 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, Austin, Burgess & Smith, 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, and co-chair, 1989-91; 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, and chair, 1990-97; board of directors, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, 1997-2000; board of directors, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and chair, 2005-09; co-chair, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Technology and Law, 2014-present; board member, Associated Universities, Inc., 2019-present; board of advisors, American Society of International Law; advisory board member, Federal Judicial Center; member, the American Philosophical Society; member, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; admitted to practice law in Illinois in 1966 and the [[Page 867]] 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. GREGORY G. KATSAS, circuit judge; born in Boston, MA, 1964; son of George and Clara Katsas; married to Simone Mele Katsas; two daughters; A.B., Princeton University, 1986, cum laude; J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude, executive editor, Harvard Law Review; law clerk to Judge Edward Becker, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1989-90; law clerk to Judge Clarence Thomas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1990-91; law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States, 1991-92; associate then partner, Jones Day, 1992- 2001; Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 2001-06; Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General, 2006- 08; Acting Associate Attorney General, 2007-08; Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, 2008-09; partner, Jones Day, 2009-17; Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President, 2017; Edmund J. Randolph award, U.S. Department of Justice, 2009; Member, Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, 2008-09; Member, Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules, 2013-17. Appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on December 8, 2018. NEOMI RAO, circuit judge; was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in March 2019. She graduated from Yale College in 1995 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1999. Following graduation, she served as a law clerk to Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and, in the 2001 October Term, as law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. Between her clerkships, Judge Rao served as counsel for nominations and constitutional law to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. In 2002, she joined the international arbitration group of Clifford Chance LLP in London, England. From 2005 to 2006, she served as Special Assistant and Associate White House Counsel to President George W. Bush. From 2006 to 2017, Judge Rao was a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where she taught constitutional law, legislation and statutory interpretation, and the history and foundations of the administrative state. In 2014, she founded the Center for the Study of the Administrative State, a non-profit Center that promotes academic scholarship and public policy debates about administrative law. In July 2017, she was appointed to serve as the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management Budget. She served in this position until her appointment to the D.C. Circuit. PATRICIA MILLETT, circuit judge; 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. JUSTIN R. WALKER, circuit judge; was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in September 2020. A graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School, he clerked for then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Anthony Kennedy. In 2019, he was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. Prior to that, he practiced at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher (D.C.) and Dinsmore & Shohl (Louisville). He has taught law in several states and foreign countries. J. MICHELLE CHILDS, circuit judge; born in 1966 in Detroit, MI; B.S., University of South Florida, 1988; J.D., University of South Carolina School of Law, 1991; M.A., University of South Carolina School of Business, 1991. Judge Childs was formerly a partner with the law firm of Nexsen Pruet Jacobs & Pollard, LLP, in Columbia, SC, where she practiced in the areas of employment and labor law and general litigation from 1992-2000. She was deputy director of the Division of Labor at the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation from 2000-2002 and Commissioner of the South Carolina Workers' Compensation Commission from 2002-2006. She was a Circuit Court Judge for the Fifth Judicial Circuit of South Carolina from 2006-10. Judge Childs was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina in August 2010 and served until 2022. She was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President Joe Biden and took the oath of office on July 25, 2022. 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 [[Page 868]] 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 (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 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 [[Page 869]] 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 and Elliot, Federal Standards of Review (3rd ed. 2018), 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 Section 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 Steven Silberman, Katherine DeBoer Fischer, 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, Harvard Law School, 1994-95; Adjunct Professor of Law, New York University Law School, 1995- 96; Distinguished Visitor from the Judiciary, Georgetown Law Center, 2003-19; 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. 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 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 [[Page 870]] 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. Appointed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, May 19, 2018; Presiding Judge, 2020- present; 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 D.C. 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. 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.