Congressional Directory for the 117th Congress (2021-2022), October 2022.
[Pages 884-887]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
One Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278-0001
phone (212) 264-2800
MARK A. BARNETT, chief judge; graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta
Kappa from Dickinson College; studied at the Dickinson Center for
European Studies; J.D., cum laude from the University of Michigan Law
School; member of the Bars of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia
and admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of International Trade
and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; practiced in the
international trade group at Steptoe and Johnson; joined the Office of
Chief Counsel for Import Administration at the U.S. Department of
Commerce as a staff attorney, served as a senior counsel, and
subsequently served as the Deputy Chief Counsel for Import
Administration; member of the U.S. negotiating teams for the U.S.-
Morocco Free Trade Agreement, the World Trade Organization's Doha Round
Rules Negotiating Group, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership; represented
the United States before dispute settlement panels and the Appellate
Body of the World Trade Organization and binational panels composed
under the North American Free Trade Agreement; detailed to the U.S.
House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on
Trade as a Trade Counsel; served two terms as a member of the board of
directors of the International Model United Nations Association, Inc.,
including Vice-Chairman and Chairman; nominated to the U.S. Court of
International Trade by President Obama on July 12, 2012, and confirmed
by the U.S. Senate on May 23, 2013.
CLAIRE R. KELLY, judge; born in New York, NY. Married to Joseph A.
DiBartolo. Child: Joseph J. DiBartolo. Attended Sacred Heart Academy,
Hempstead, NY; B.A., cum laude, Barnard College, 1987; J.D., magna cum
laude, Brooklyn Law School, 1993; professional experience: Coudert
Brothers associated, 1993-97; (1997-2013); Legal Writing Instructor,
Associate Professor of Law and Professor of Law and Co-Director of the
Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law,
Brooklyn Law School, 1997-2013; Elected Member of the American Law
Institute, 2011; nominated to the U.S. Court of International Trade by
President Obama on November 14, 2012, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate
on May 23, 2013.
JENNIFER CHOE-GROVES, judge; born in Chicago, IL; A.B., Princeton
University; J.D., Rutgers School of Law-Newark; LL.M., Columbia Law
School; Juilliard School, Pre-College Degree (Piano and Composition).
Nominated by the President of the United States on July 30, 2015, and
confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate on June 6, 2016. Judge Choe-
Groves served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan
District Attorney's Office, as Senior Director for Intellectual Property
and Innovation, and Chair of the Special 301 Committee for the Office of
the United States Trade Representative (USTR) under Presidents George W.
Bush and Barack Obama. Prior to her appointment to the United States
Court of International Trade, Judge Choe-Groves was a partner in private
practice.
GARY S. KATZMANN, judge; born in New York, NY. New York City public
schools; A.B., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia, 1973; M.Litt,
Oxford, 1976; J.D., Yale Law School, 1979; Editor, Yale Law Journal;
M.P.P.M., Yale School of Management, 1979. Law Clerk, Judge Leonard B.
Sand, United States District Court for the Southern District of New
York, 1979-80; Law Clerk, Judge Stephen G. Breyer, United States Court
of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1980-81. Research Associate, Center
for Criminal Justice, Harvard Law School, 1981-83; special investigator,
Administrative Board, Harvard Law School, 1982-83. Assistant United
States Attorney, District of Massachusetts, 1983-2004 (variously trial
and appellate litigator in the criminal and civil divisions, Chief
Appellate Attorney, Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, Chief Legal
Counsel to the United States Attorney). Associate Deputy Attorney
General, Washington, DC, 1993-94 (on detail from U.S. Attorney's
Office); Office of the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1995
(on detail). Recipient, Director's Awards, Department of Justice, for
excellence in appellate advocacy, 1993, and for successful terrorism
prosecution, 2003. Associate Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court, 2004-
16, appointed by Governor Mitt Romney. Judge, United States Court of
International Trade, 2016-
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present, appointed by President Barack Obama, sworn in on September 16,
2016. Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School, 1990-94, 1997; John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1993-2003; research
fellow and project director, 1997-2001; Fellow, 2002-03. Governance
Institute, Washington, DC, 1997-2003, research fellow and project
director, 1997-2001; Fellow, 2002-03. Yale Law School, 1999, participant
in course on sentencing. Faculty, Institute for Judicial Administration,
NYU Law School, Seminar for New Appellate Judges, 2013-present. Author,
Inside the Criminal Process (1990) (W.W. Norton, publisher); Editor and
Contributing Author, Securing Our Children's Future: New Approaches to
Juvenile Justice and Youth Violence (2004) (Brookings / Governance,
publisher). Author, various articles.
TIMOTHY M. REIF, judge. From 2017 to 2019, Judge Reif served as
Senior Advisor to the United States Trade Representative. From 2009 to
2017, he was the General Counsel for the Office of the United States
Trade Representative. As General Counsel, Judge Reif was responsible for
compliance with and enforcement of all U.S. trade and investment
agreements, and for providing legal counsel on all U.S. trade
negotiations. From 1998 to 2009, Judge Reif served as Chief
International Trade Counsel for the Committee on Ways and Means in the
U.S. House of Representatives, where he advised on the regulation of all
international trade, investment, regulatory and economic matters, and
related legislation. Prior to this appointment, Judge Reif worked as
Special International Trade Counsel at Dewey Ballantine, LLP. From 1993
to 1995, Judge Reif served as Trade Counsel to the Ways and Means
Committee. From 1989 to 1993, Judge Reif served as Associate General
Counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where he was
lead USTR negotiator for key provisions of the Uruguay Round Agreements
and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), as well as a number
of bilateral agreements such as the U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Agreement
(1991). Judge Reif also litigated or supervised the litigation of
numerous disputes under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT). From 1987 to 1989, Judge Reif served as Attorney-Advisor with
the U.S. International Trade Commission. From 1985 to 1987, he served as
an associate with the Washington office of Milbank Tweed Hadley &
McCloy. Since 2015, Judge Reif has been Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law
School and has also served as Visiting Lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson
School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University
(2017, 2012, 2008, 2004), and at Georgetown Law School (1995-2007). Mr.
Reif received his J.D. from Columbia Law School and his M.P.A. and A.B.
degrees from Princeton University. He is married to Desiree Green and
they are the parents of Paul, Anna, Sarah, and Clare. They live with
their Airedales, Winston and Clementine.
M. MILLER BAKER, judge. Appointed as a Judge of the United States
Court of International Trade on December 18, 2019, by President Donald
J. Trump. Judge Baker entered on duty on December 20, 2019. A native of
Terrebonne Parish, LA, Judge Baker grew up in Louisiana and Wyoming and
attended Louisiana State University. Judge Baker thereafter earned his
J.D. from Tulane University Law School and was admitted to the Louisiana
bar in 1984 at age 22. After graduating from Tulane, he served as a law
clerk to Judge John Malcolm Duhe, Jr., of the United States District
Court for the Western District of Louisiana and then for Judge Thomas
Gibbs Gee of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Following his judicial clerkships, from 1986 until the end of the Reagan
Administration on January 20, 1989, Judge Baker served in the Justice
Department under Attorneys General Edwin Meese III and Richard
Thornburgh, first as an attorney-advisor in the Office of Legal Policy,
and later as a special assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for
Civil Rights. Judge Baker then entered private practice in Washington,
DC, until 1991. From 1991 to 1993 he served as counsel to Senator Orrin
G. Hatch on the staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Following his
service on the Judiciary Committee staff, Judge Baker returned to
private practice in Washington, DC, focusing on complex civil litigation
involving a wide range of subjects at the law firms of Carr, Goodson, &
Warner (1993-2000) and McDermott, Will, & Emery LLP (2000-19). At
McDermott, Judge Baker co-chaired the firm's appellate practice group.
When he was in private practice, Judge Baker argued before the Supreme
Court, nine of the thirteen federal courts of appeals, and appellate
courts in three states and the District of Columbia. In 2009, The
American Lawyer named Judge Baker as ``Litigator of the Week'' for one
of his Supreme Court wins. In addition to his appellate practice, Judge
Baker litigated in state and federal trial courts in seventeen states
and the District of Columbia. From 1986 to 1995, Judge Baker served as a
naval reserve intelligence officer and received an honorable discharge.
His duties included serving with an anti-terrorist unit, on the battle
staff of an admiral commanding a carrier battle group operating in the
North Atlantic during a large NATO exercise in the Cold War, and as a
watch officer in the Navy Command Center in the Pentagon during the
Persian Gulf War. In the aftermath of 9 / 11, Judge Baker testified
before the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on constitutional and
policy issues associated with continuity of government. He also
testified before the Continuity of Government Commission, a bipartisan
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study commission established by the American Enterprise Institute and
the Brookings Institution. Judge Baker and his wife Margaret have five
children, two of whom are active duty military officers.
STEPHEN ALEXANDER VADEN, judge; B.A., American history, Vanderbilt
University, 2004; J.D., Yale Law School, 2008; clerked for Hon. Julia
Smith Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2008-09;
clerked for Hon. Samuel H. Mays, Jr., U.S. District Court for the
Western District of Tennessee, 2009-10. Appointed by President Donald J.
Trump on December 21, 2020. Before joining the court, Judge Vaden served
as General Counsel of the United States Department of Agriculture. Judge
Vaden supervised more than 250 legal professionals in thirteen offices
across the United States who handled all legal matters on behalf of a
Department with more than 100,000 employees and an annual budget
approaching $150 billion. During his nearly four-year tenure as head of
the Office of General Counsel, the Department won two cases before the
United States Supreme Court, relocated and reorganized the agencies that
comprise the Department to better serve rural America, engaged in
substantial regulatory reform, developed new regulations to allow for
the legal sale of hemp and the labeling of bioengineered products, and
implemented the 2018 Farm Bill. The Department averaged more than 5,000
matters in litigation before federal legal and administrative tribunals
at any one time. Judge Vaden also served as a Member of the Board of the
Commodity Credit Corporation, a government corporation devoted to
helping American agricultural producers. During his tenure from 2017-20,
the Board developed programs to assist American producers affected by
foreign trade barriers. In the private sector, Judge Vaden worked for
two law firms: Jones Day and Patton Boggs. At both, Judge Vaden served
as an appellate litigator and as part of the firms' political law
practices. In this role, he counseled political candidates, donors, and
others involved in the political process on compliance with the litany
of federal and state laws that govern seeking and holding elective
office. A native of Union City, TN, Judge Vaden grew up helping with his
family's farms and real estate ventures.
SENIOR JUDGES
JANE A. RESTANI, senior judge; born in San Francisco, CA, 1948;
parents: Emilia C. and Roy J. Restani; husband: Ira Bloom; B.A.,
University of California at Berkeley, 1969; J.D., University of
California at Davis, 1973; law review staff writer, 1971-72; articles
editor, 1972-73; member, Order of the Coif; elected to Phi Kappa Phi
Honor Society; admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the State of
California, 1973; joined the civil division of the Department of Justice
under the Attorney General's Honor Program in 1973 as a trial attorney;
assistant chief commercial litigation section, civil division, 1976-80;
director, commercial litigation branch, civil division, 1980-83;
recipient of the John Marshall Award of outstanding legal achievement in
1983; Judicial Improvements Committee (now Committee on Court
Administration and Case Management) of the Judicial Conference of the
United States, 1987-94; Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the
Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure, and liaison to the Advisory
Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 1994-96; member,
Judicial Conference of the United States, 2003-10; Executive Committee
of the Judicial Conference, 2010; ABA Standing Committee on Customs
Laws, 1990-93; and the Board of Directors, New York State Association of
Women Judges, 1992-present; nominated to the United States Court of
International Trade on November 2, 1983, by President Reagan; entered
upon the duties of that office on November 25, 1983; Chief Judge, 2003-
10.
THOMAS J. AQUILINO, JR., senior judge; born in Mount Kisco, NY,
December 7, 1939; son of Thomas J. and Virginia B. (Doughty) Aquilino;
married to Edith Berndt Aquilino; children: Christopher Thomas, Philip
Andrew, and Alexander Berndt; attended Cornell University, 1957-59;
B.A., Drew University, 1959-60, 1961-62; University of Munich, Germany,
1960-61; Free University of Berlin, Germany, 1965-66; J.D., Rutgers
University School of Law, 1966-69; research assistant, Prof. L.F.E.
Goldie (Resources for the Future-Ford Foundation), 1967-69;
administrator, Northern Region, 1969 Jessup International Law Moot Court
Competition; served in the U.S. Army, 1962-65; law clerk, Hon. John M.
Cannella, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York,
1969-71; attorney with Davis Polk and Wardwell, New York, NY, 1971-85;
admitted to practice New York, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals
for Second and Third Circuits, U.S. Court of International Trade, U.S.
Court of Claims, U.S. District Courts for Eastern, Southern and Northern
Districts of New York, Interstate Commerce Commission; adjunct professor
of law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1984-95; Mem., Drew
University Board of Visitors, 1997-present; appointed to the U.S. Court
of International Trade by President Reagan on February 22, 1985;
confirmed by U.S. Senate, April 3, 1985.
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RICHARD K. EATON, senior judge; born in Walton, NY; married to
Susan Henshaw Jones; two children: Alice and Elizabeth; attended Walton
public schools; B.A., Ithaca College; J.D., Union University Albany Law
School, 1974; professional experience: Eaton and Eaton, partner; Mudge
Rose Guthrie Alexander and Ferdon, New York, NY, associate and partner;
Stroock and Stroock and Lavan, partner; served on the staff of Senator
Daniel Patrick Moynihan; confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the U.S. Court
of International Trade on October 22, 1999.
TIMOTHY C. STANCEU, senior judge; born in Canton, OH; A.B., Colgate
University, 1973; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1979;
appointed to the U.S. Court of International Trade by President George
W. Bush and began serving on April 15, 2003; prior to appointment,
private practice for 13 years in Washington, DC, with the law firm Hogan
and Hartson, LLP, during which he represented clients in a variety of
matters involving customs and international trade law; Deputy Director,
Office of Trade and Tariff Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury;
where his responsibilities involved the regulatory and enforcement
matters of the U.S. Customs Service and other agencies; Special
Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Enforcement, U.S.
Department of the Treasury; Program Analyst and Environmental Protection
Specialist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he concentrated
on the development and review of regulations on various environmental
subjects.
LEO M. GORDON, senior judge; graduate of Newark Academy in
Livingston, NJ; University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Phi Beta
Kappa, 1973; J.D., Emory University School of Law, 1977; member of the
Bars of New Jersey, Georgia, and the District of Columbia; Assistant
Counsel at the Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law, Committee
on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, 1977-81; in that
capacity, Judge Gordon was the principal attorney responsible for the
Customs Courts Act of 1980 that created the U.S. Court of International
Trade; for 25 years, Judge Gordon was on the staff at the Court, serving
first as Assistant Clerk from 1981-99, and then Clerk of the Court from
1999-2006; appointed to the U.S. Court of International Trade in March
2006.
INACTIVE SENIOR JUDGES
R. KENTON MUSGRAVE, inactive senior judge; born in Clearwater, FL,
September 7, 1927; married: May 7, 1949, to former Ruth Shippen Hoppe,
of Atlanta, GA; three children: Laura Marie Musgrave (deceased), Ruth
Shippen Musgrave, Esq., and Forest Kenton Musgrave; attended Augusta
Academy, VA; B.A., University of Washington, 1948; editorial staff,
Journal of International Law, Emory University; J.D., with distinction,
Emory University, 1953; assistant general counsel, Lockheed Aircraft and
Lockheed International, 1953-62; vice president and general counsel,
Mattel, Inc., 1963-71; director, Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey
Combined Shows, Inc., 1968-72; commissioner, BSA, Atlanta, 1952-55;
partner, Musgrave, Welbourn and Fertman, 1972-75; assistant general
counsel, Pacific Enterprises, 1975-81; vice president, general counsel
and secretary, Vivitar Corporation, 1981-85; vice president and
director, Santa Barbara Applied Research Corp., 1982-87; trustee, Morris
Animal Foundation, 1981-94; director Emeritus, Pet Protection Society,
1981-present; director, Dolphins of Shark Bay (Australia) Foundation,
1985-present; trustee, The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, 1987-present;
trustee, The Ocean Conservancy, 2000-present; vice president and
director, South Bay Social Services Group, 1963-70; director, Palos
Verdes Community Arts Association, 1973-79; member, Governor of
Florida's Council of 100, 1970-73; director, Orlando Bank and Trust,
1970-73; counsel, League of Women Voters, 1964-66; member, State Bar of
Georgia, 1953-present; State Bar of California, 1962-present; Los
Angeles County Bar Association, 1962-87 and chairman, Corporate Law
Departments Section, 1965-66; admitted to practice before the U.S.
Supreme Court, 1962; Supreme Court of Georgia, 1953; California Supreme
Court, 1962; U.S. Customs Court, 1967; U.S. Court of International
Trade, 1980; nominated to the U.S. Court of International Trade by
President Reagan on July 1, 1987; confirmed by the Senate on November 9,
and took oath of office on November 13, 1987.
Officer of the United States Court of International Trade
Clerk.--Mario Toscano, (212) 264-2814.