Congressional Directory for the 117th Congress (2021-2022), October 2022.
[Pages 871-876]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT
717 Madison Place, NW., Washington, DC 20439
phone (202) 275-8000
KIMBERLY A. MOORE, Chief Circuit Judge, was appointed by President
George W. Bush in 2006 and assumed the duties of Chief Judge on May 22,
2021. Prior to her appointment, Judge Moore was a Professor of Law from
2004 to 2006 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 & 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.
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 Associa
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tion 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 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.
SHARON PROST, Circuit Judge, was appointed by President George W.
Bush in 2001. She served as Chief Judge from 2014 to 2021. Prior to her
appointment, Judge Prost served as Minority Chief Counsel, Deputy Chief
Counsel, and Chief Counsel of the Committee on the Judiciary, U.S.
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.
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
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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.
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 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 U.S. 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.
TIFFANY P. CUNNINGHAM, Circuit Judge, was appointed by President
Joseph R. Biden in 2021 and assumed duties of her office on September 1,
2021. Prior to her appointment, she served as trial and appellate
counsel for companies and individuals in complex patent
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and trade secret disputes. From 2014 to 2021, Judge Cunningham served as
a partner at Perkins Coie LLP in Chicago, Illinois. She also was a
member of the Executive Committee of Perkins Coie LLP from 2020 to 2021.
She served as a partner at the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP
from 2007 to 2014 and as an associate at the same office from 2002 to
2007. During her time in private practice, she was recognized on The
Best Lawyers in America, Super Lawyers, and Leading Lawyers lists. Judge
Cunningham clerked from 2001 to 2002 for the Honorable Timothy B. Dyk,
Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal
Circuit. Judge Cunningham received her S.B. in Chemical Engineering from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 and her J.D. from
Harvard Law School in 2001. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and
Tau Beta Pi honor societies.
LEONARD P. STARK was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden in
March 2022. He came to the Federal Circuit from the United States
District Court for the District of Delaware, where he was appointed as a
District Judge by President Barack H. Obama in August 2010. He served as
Chief Judge of the District of Delaware from July 1, 2014 until June 30,
2021. Judge Stark's judicial tenure began in August 2007, when he was
appointed a Magistrate Judge for the District of Delaware. Prior to
taking the bench, Judge Stark served as an Assistant United States
Attorney for the District of Delaware (2002-07) and an associate with
the Wilmington, Delaware office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
(1997-2001). Judge Stark clerked for the Honorable Walter King Stapleton
of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1996 to
1997. Judge Stark graduated from the University of Delaware in 1991 with
an M.A. in History, a B.S. in Economics, and a B.A. in Political
Science. In 1993, he earned a doctorate degree in Politics from Magdalen
College at the University of Oxford, which he attended as Rhodes
Scholar. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1996. Judge Stark
has taught intellectual property and complex litigation courses as an
adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School and the
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
SENIOR 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
a 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 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,
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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. Judge Bryson assumed senior
status on January 7, 2013.
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. 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 Wash
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ington 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. Judge Linn assumed
senior status on November 1, 2012.
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 Munster 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 L.L.B. with
honors in International Law from Cambridge University in 1981. Judge
Wallach assumed senior status on May 31, 2021.
Officers of the United States Court of Appeals
for the Federal Circuit
Circuit Executive and Clerk of Court.--Peter R. Marksteiner (202)
275-8020.
Chief Deputy Clerk.--Jarrett B. Perlow (202) 275-8021.
General Counsel and Senior Staff Attorney.--Jeffrey Goldberg (202)
275-8000.
Senior Technical Assistant.--Marilyn Wennes (202) 275-8000.
Circuit Librarian.--Jessica M. Perovich (202) 275-8408.
Director of Information Technology.--Riley Toussaint (202) 275-
8421.
Chief Deputy for Administrative Services.--Patrick H. Barnwell
(202) 275-8141.