• Chief Judge Ginsburg was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in November 1986 and became Chief Judge on July 16, 2001. He was graduated from Cornell University (B.S. 1970) and from the University of Chicago Law School (J.D. 1973). Following law school, he clerked for Judge Carl McGowan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. From 1975 to 1983, he was a professor at Harvard Law School. He then served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Regulatory Affairs, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, from 1983 to 1984; Administrator, Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB, from 1984 to 1985; and Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, from 1985 to 1986.

DAVID B. SENTELLE

• Judge Sentelle was appointed United States Circuit Judge in October 1987. He is a 1968 graduate of the University of North Carolina Law School. Following law school, he practiced with the firm of Uzzell & DuMont until he became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Charlotte, N.C. in 1970. From 1974 to 1977, he served as a North Carolina State District Judge but left the bench in 1977 to become a partner with the firm of Tucker, Hicks, Sentelle, Moon & Hodge. In 1985, Judge Sentelle joined the U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina, in Asheville, where he served until his appointment to the D.C. Circuit. Judge Sentelle is the Presiding Judge of the Special Division for the Purpose of Appointing Independent Counsels (1992-present). Judge Sentelle serves as President of the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of the American Inns of Court. He also is chair of the U.S. Judicial Conference's Judicial Security Committee.

KAREN LECRAFT HENDERSON

• Judge Henderson was appointed United States Circuit Judge in July 1990. She received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and her law degree from the University of North Carolina. Following law school, she was in private practice in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From 1973 to 1983, she was with the Office of the South Carolina Attorney General, ultimately in the position of Deputy Attorney General. In 1983, she returned to private practice as a member of the firm of Sinkler, Gibbs & Simons of Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina. In June 1986, Judge Henderson was appointed United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina where she served until her appointment to the D.C. Circuit.

A. RAYMOND RANDOLPH

• Judge Randolph was appointed United States Circuit Judge in July 1990. He is a graduate of Drexel University (1966) and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (summa cum laude 1969). After clerking for Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Judge Randolph served as an Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General from 1970 to 1973, and, from 1975 to 1977, as a Deputy Solicitor General. From 1979 to 1980, Judge Randolph was Special Counsel to the Ethics Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. He has also served as Special Assistant Attorney General for Utah, Montana, and New Mexico. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was a partner with the firm of Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz. Judge Randolph has taught courses in civil procedure and injunctions at Georgetown University Law Center and is a Distinguished Professor of Law at George Mason Law School, teaching advanced constitutional law. He served on the U.S. Judicial Conference's Codes of Conduct Committee as a member (1992-1995) and as chairman (1995- 1998).

JUDITH W. ROGERS

• Judge Rogers was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in March 1994. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School and has a Master of Laws degree from the University of Virginia Law School. She has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice. In the Office of the U.S. Deputy Attorney General, she worked on the D.C. Court Reform and Criminal Procedure Act of 1970. She was also General Counsel to the congressional commission on the organization of the District government and, thereafter, Special Assistant to the Mayor for federal and District of Columbia legislation. She was appointed Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia in 1979. In 1983, she was appointed Associate Judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals and served as Chief Judge from 1988 until her appointment to the D.C. Circuit.

DAVID S. TATEL

• Judge Tatel was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in October 1994. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1963 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1966. Following law school, he taught for a year at the University of Michigan Law School and then went into private practice with the firm of Sidley & Austin in Chicago. From 1969 to 1970, he served as Director of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, then returned to Sidley & Austin until 1972, when he became Director of the National Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in Washington, D.C. From 1974 to 1977, he returned to private practice as associate and partner with Hogan & Hartson, where he headed the firm's Community Services Department. He also served as General Counsel for the newly created Legal Services Corporation from 1975 to 1976. In 1977, Judge Tatel became the Director of the Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
  He returned to Hogan & Hartson in 1979, where he headed the firm's education group until his appointment to the D.C. Circuit.

MERRICK B. GARLAND

• Judge Garland was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in April 1997. He graduated from Harvard College (summa cum laude) in 1974 and Harvard Law School (magna cum laude) in 1977. Following graduation, he served as law clerk to Judge Henry J. Friendly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. From 1979 to 1981, he was Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States. He then joined the law firm of Arnold & Porter, where he was a partner from 1985 to 1989 and from 1992 to 1993. He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1989 to 1992, and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1993 to 1994. From 1994 until his appointment as U.S. Circuit Judge, Judge Garland served as Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General, where his responsibilities included the supervision of the Oklahoma City bombing and UNABOM prosecutions. He has taught antitrust law at Harvard Law School and has served as co-chair of the administrative law section of the District of Columbia Bar.

JANICE ROGERS BROWN

• Judge Brown was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in June 2005. She graduated from California State University, Sacramento, and the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. She also received a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia School of Law. Judge Brown served as a deputy in the Office of Legislative Counsel for the State of California, as a deputy attorney general in the California Attorney General’s Office, and as Deputy Secretary and General Counsel for California’s Business, Transportation and Housing Agency. She then entered private practice as a senior associate at the Sacramento law firm of Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor. In 1991, Judge Brown returned to government service as the Legal Affairs Secretary to California Governor Pete Wilson. From 1994 to 1996, she served as an associate justice of the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, and from 1996 to 2005, as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court.

THOMAS B. GRIFFITH

• Judge Griffith was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in June 2005. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1978 and from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1985. Judge Griffith was engaged in private practice from 1985 through 1989 in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was an associate at Robinson, Bradshaw and Hinson, and from 1989 through 1995 and again in 1999 and 2000 in Washington, DC, where he was first an associate and then a partner at Wiley, Rein and Fielding. In private practice, his primary areas of emphasis were commercial and corporate litigation. From 1995 through 1999, Judge Griffith was Senate Legal Counsel of the United States, the chief legal officer of the United States Senate. In 1999 and 2000, Judge Griffith was General Counsel to the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce, a congressional commission created to study the interplay between tax policy and electronic commerce. In 2002 and 2003, Judge Griffith was a member of the United States Secretary of Education’s Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, which was charged with examining the role of Title IX in intercollegiate athletics. From 2000 until his appointment to the United States Court of Appeals, Judge Griffith was Assistant to the President and General Counsel of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Judge Griffith is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association's Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative.

BRETT M. KAVANAUGH

• Judge Kavanaugh was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals on May 30, 2006. Judge Kavanaugh received a B.A. (cum laude) from Yale College (1987) and a J.D. from Yale Law School (1990). He began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Walter Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and then clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. During the 1993 Term, Judge Kavanaugh was a law clerk to Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to his Supreme Court clerkship, he served for one year as an attorney with the Office of the Solicitor General of the United States. From 1994 to 1998, Judge Kavanaugh was an Associate Counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel, after which he was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. From 2001 to 2003, Judge Kavanaugh served as Associate Counsel and then as Senior Associate Counsel to the President. From July 2003 until his appointment to the court, he was Assistant to the President and Staff Secretary to President Bush.

SENIOR JUDGE
HARRY T. EDWARDS

• Judge Edwards was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals in February 1980, served as Chief Judge from September 15, 1994, until July 15, 2001, and took senior status on November 3, 2005. He graduated from Cornell University in 1962 and the University of Michigan Law School in 1965. Judge Edwards practiced law in Chicago from 1965 to 1970. He was then a tenured member of the faculties at the University of Michigan Law School, where he taught from 1970 to 1975 and 1977 to 1980, and at Harvard Law School, where he taught from 1975 to 1977. He also taught at the Harvard Institute for Educational Management between 1976 and 1982. He served as a member and then Chairman of the Board of Directors of AMTRAK from 1978 to 1980, and also served as a neutral labor arbitrator under a number of major collective bargaining agreements during the 1970s. Judge Edwards has co-authored four books and published scores of law review articles on labor law, higher education law, federal courts, legal education, professionalism, and judicial administration. Since joining the court, he has taught law at Harvard, Michigan, Duke, Pennsylvania, Georgetown, and, most recently, NYU Law School.

SENIOR JUDGE
LAURENCE H. SILBERMAN

• Judge Silberman was appointed United States Circuit Judge in October 1985, and took senior status on November 1, 2000. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1957 and Harvard Law School in 1961. He has been a partner in law firms in Honolulu and Washington, D.C., as well as a banker in San Francisco. He served in government as an attorney in the NLRB’s appellate section, Solicitor of the Department of Labor from 1969 to 1970, Undersecretary of Labor from 1970 to 1973, Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1974 to 1975, and Ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1975 to 1977. From 1981 to 1985, he served as a member of the General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament and the Department of Defense Policy Board. He was appointed by the Chief Justice to a term (1996 to 2003) as a member of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s Review Panel. He also served as Co-Chairman (2004 to 2005) of the President’s Intelligence Commission. He was an Adjunct Professor of Administrative Law at Georgetown University Law Center from 1987 to 1994 and in 1997 and 1999, at NYU from 1995 to 1996, and at Harvard in 1998. He is now the Distinguished Visitor from the Judiciary at Georgetown University Law Center.

SENIOR JUDGE
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS

• Judge Williams was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in June 1986, and took senior status in September 2001. He graduated from Yale College (B.A. 1958) and from Harvard Law School (J.D. 1961). Judge Williams was engaged in private practice from 1962 to 1966 and became an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 1966. From 1969 until his appointment to the bench, Judge Williams taught at the University of Colorado School of Law. During this time, he also served as a Visiting Professor of Law at UCLA, University of Chicago Law School, and Southern Methodist University and was a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States and the Federal Trade Commission.

SENIOR JUDGE
JAMES L. BUCKLEY

• Judge Buckley was appointed United States Circuit Judge in December 1985 and took senior status in September 1996, and retired September 2000. He graduated from Yale College, receiving a B.A. in 1943, and from Yale Law School, receiving an LL.B. in 1949. Judge Buckley was engaged in private practice from 1949 until 1958 when he became an Officer and Director of The Catawba Corporation. From 1971 to 1977, he served as a United States Senator. In 1977, he was engaged in private sector activities, but reentered government service as Undersecretary for Security Assistance, U.S. State Department in 1981. From 1982 to 1985, Judge Buckley was President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.