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is the Sierra Club’s chief climate counsel. After joining the Sierra Club in 2002, he served as counsel in the Cheney Energy Task Force case, after which he initiated and then managed the Massachusetts v. EPA litigation. He represents the environmental community (including as trial counsel) in the four auto industry suits against California’s greenhouse gas vehicle standards, and in the challenge to the EPA’s denial of the Clean Air Act waiver necessary to enforce these standards. He is also responsible for bringing and managing the Bonanza litigation, which has effectively imposed the moratorium on new coal-fired power plants in the United States, and for overseeing Sierra Club’s climate litigation throughout the U.S. Mr. Bookbinder graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1982 and from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985. He joined the litigation department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where until 1992 he handled securities, mergers and acquisitions, product liability, intellectual property and other matters.
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is the director and chief economist of the U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit (US-CCU), an independent, non-profit research institute that investigates the strategic and economic consequences of possible cyber-attacks. He is responsible for many of the concepts that are currently being used to understand the implications of cyber-attacks in business contexts. In collaboration with John Bumgarner, he is author of the US-CCU Cyber-Security Check List, the most comprehensive survey to date of cyber vulnerabilities. He regularly advises a number of different U.S. government departments and industry associations on emerging cyber threats, on how to quantify cyber risks, and on assessing possible counter-measures. Before being asked by government officials to tackle cyber-security issues, Mr. Borg was one of the principal developers of Value Creation Analysis, a set of business strategy models for understanding how much value can be created by various types and components of value chains. He did pioneering work on pricing theory and on the application of cooperative-game-theory-based economic concepts to information. He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and other leading universities. He is currently a senior research fellow in international security studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. |
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was appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of California on March 2, 1988. He was reappointed to a second 14-year term and was elevated to chief bankruptcy judge in 2002. In 1995 he was appointed by the late Chief Justice Rehnquist to the Codes of Conduct Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States. After serving eight years with that committee he was appointed by the JCUS as a liaison to the American Bar Association’s Joint Commission to Evaluate the Model Code of Judicial Conduct, which concluded its work in 2007. Judge Bowie graduated from Wake Forest College (now University) in 1964, served four years in the Navy with two Vietnam tours, then attended the University of San Diego School of Law. After graduating magna cum laude in 1971 he was a trial attorney in the Honors Program in the U.S. Department of Justice, followed by 14 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, the last six of which he served as the chief assistant U.S. attorney. |
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is the director for the Cybercrime Lab at the Department of Justice, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) and is an adjunct professor at George Washington University, teaching computer crimes investigation. He has over 20 years of law enforcement experience. Prior to joining the DOJ, Mr. Carroll was the special agent in charge of the Computer Crimes Unit at the U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, responsible for all computer intrusion investigations, computer forensic analysis and all deployment, installation and monitoring of technical surveillance equipment in support of criminal investigations. The Cybercrime Lab is responsible for providing computer forensic and other technical support to the DOJ attorneys throughout the U.S. as it applies to implementing the department’s national strategies in combating cyber crimes and intellectual property crimes worldwide. |
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was appointed the circuit and court of appeals executive for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on December 5, 2007. Previously, Ms. Catterson served as chief deputy clerk prior to her appointment as clerk in 1985. She also was a law clerk to District Judge Edward J. Devitt of the District of Minnesota from 1977 to 1979. In that capacity, Ms. Catterson provided staff support to the JCUS Committee on Attorney Admission Standards. She also served as legislative secretary/staff assistant to U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits from 1971 to 1977. Ms. Catterson has served on numerous national committees involving federal appellate court administration and as a consultant in judicial administration, to the Supreme Courts of Israel, India, Guam, and Thailand, as well as the European Court for Human Rights. She graduated from the Catholic University of America and received her J.D. from George Mason University. |
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is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, chair of the political economy of industrial societies major, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987. He joined U.C. Berkeley as an associate professor in 1993 and became a full professor in 1997. Dr. DeLong also served as deputy assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Economic Policy, from 1993 to 1995. He worked on the Clinton Administration’s 1993 budget, on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, on macroeconomic policy, and on the unsuccessful health care reform effort. Before joining the Treasury Department, Dr. DeLong was Danziger associate professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. |
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is professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School. Her current research and teaching encompass the areas of conflict and cyberspace; trust, influence and networks; terrorism and crime; and information operations and security. She is author of Information Warfare and Security and over 140 articles, and has testified before Congress on encryption policy and cyberterrorism. Dr. Denning is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, Inc. (ISC)2. She is a recipient of the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award, the Harold F. Tipton Award, the National Computer Systems Security Award, the Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control (SIGSAC) Outstanding Innovation Award, and several other security awards. She was a featured security innovator in Time magazine. She received B.A. and M.A. degrees in mathematics from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Purdue University, which later awarded her a Distinguished Science Alumnus. |
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is the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Prior to his appointment, he was a managing partner at the law firm of Baker Donelson in Washington, D.C. Director Duff has been an adjunct faculty member since 1998 at Georgetown University. He served as an administrative assistant to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist from 1996 to 2000. He has been a trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society since 1996. Director Duff received his B.A. from the University of Kentucky in 1975 and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1981. |
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is the James Parker Hall distinguished service professor of law at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1972. He is director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, and he has also been the Peter and Kirstin Bedford senior fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000. Prior to joining the University of Chicago Law School faculty, he taught law at the University of Southern California from 1968 to 1972. He served as interim dean from February to June, 2001. He received an LL.D., h.c., from the University of Ghent in 2003. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985 and has been a senior fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School since 1983. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 1981 to 1991, and of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1991 to 2001. Professor Epstein received his A.B. in 1964 from Columbia College; his B.A. from Oxford University in 1966; and his LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1968. |
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joined Boalt Hall in 2006 from the California Department of Justice, where he served as the chief deputy attorney general for legal affairs. Professor Frank was the attorney general’s principal liaison to state government, the Legislature and judiciary. He is an expert in environmental law, land use, energy issues and property rights. He serves as the executive director of the California Center for Environmental Law & Policy (CCELP). Following law school, Professor Frank worked as a staff attorney for the U.S. Federal Energy Administration in Washington, D.C., for two years. In 1976, he embarked on a 30-year career in California government when he joined the California Energy Commission as a staff counsel. The following year he began his association with the California Department of Justice as a deputy attorney general in the Land Law Section. In 2003, as chief deputy, he became the top legal adviser to the attorney general, overseeing all civil and criminal litigation within the state Department of Justice. Professor Frank received his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1971 and his J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law, in 1974. |
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, is executive vice president and chief operating officer of The Copley Press, Inc., a privately held newspaper company that publishes The San Diego Union-Tribune. Previously, Mr. Fuson served as Copley’s general counsel from 1983 to 2007 and as a staff lawyer for The Times Mirror Company from 1979 to 1983. He taught journalism at the University of Illinois from 1976 to 1979; Cuyahoga Community College from 1970 to 1976; and Texas Southern University from 1968 to 1970. Mr. Fuson is vice president and director of the California Newspaper Publishers Association and chair of its Government Affairs Committee; member of the Advisory Board of the Media Law Reporter and a former chair of the Media Law Resource Center. He is the author of Telling it All: A Legal Guide to the Exercise of Free Speech. Mr. Fuson received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Cleveland State University in 1975; his M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1968; and his B.A. from Grinnell College in 1967. |
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was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on August 12, 1992. She was elevated to chief district judge on January 24, 2005. Prior to her appointment to the federal bench, Judge Gonzalez served as a California Superior Court judge, San Diego County, from 1991 to 1992. She served as a magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California from 1984 to 1990. Judge Gonzalez received her B.A. from Stanford University in 1970,and her J.D. from the University of Arizona School of Law in 1973. Following law school, Judge Gonzalez served as a law clerk to District Judge William C. Frey of the District of Arizona from 1973 to 1975. She served as an assistant U.S. attorney, for the District of Arizona and Central District of California. Judge Gonzalez maintains chambers in San Diego. |
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is the Knight distinguished journalist-in-residence and Joseph Goldstein senior fellow in law at Yale Law School., a position she assumed in January 2009 following a 40-year career at The New York Times. From 1978 until 2008, she was the newspaper’s Supreme Court correspondent. Ms. Greenhouse received several major journalism awards while covering the Supreme Court, including the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard University’s Kennedy School in 2004. In 2002, the American Political Science Association gave her its Carey McWilliams Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” In 2008, she received the annual award for constitutional commentary from the non-partisan Constitution Project. Her biography of Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun, was published in 2005. She is a 1968 graduate of Radcliffe College (Harvard), where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned an M.S.L. degree from Yale Law School in 1978, which she attended on a Ford Foundation fellowship. |
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is the William A. Franke professor of law and business at Stanford Law School and co-director of the Rock Center on Corporate Governance at Stanford University. He joined Stanford’s faculty in 1990 after having served for more than four years as a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. While at the SEC, Professor Grundfest dealt extensively with matters related to capital markets, finance, and enforcement of federal securities laws, corporate governance, takeover regulation, market volatility, and internationalization of U.S. capital markets. Professor Grundfest received his B.S. from Yale University in 1973 and completed the M.Sc. program in mathematical economics and econometrics at the London School of Economics in 1972. He received his law degree from Stanford in 1978, where he also completed all requirements for a doctorate in economics. Professor Grundfest is founder and director of Directors’ College at Stanford Law School, and principal investigator for Stanford Law School’s Securities Litigation Clearinghouse. |
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was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on September 15, 1994. Prior to his appointment, he served as special prosecutor, The Navajo Nation, from 1985 to 1989. He enaged in private practice in Phoenix from 1980 to 1994. Judge Hawkins was the U.S. attorney for the District of Arizona from 1977 to 1980. He served as judge on the U.S. Marine Corps Special Courts Martial from 1970 to 1973. Judge Hawkins received his B.A. from Arizona State University in 1967; his J.D. from Arizona Sate University College of Law in 1970; and his LL.M. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1998. He maintains chambers in Phoenix. |
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is a solo practitioner in Helena, Montana, practicing criminal defense in state and federal courts. She is a member of the Conference Executive Committee, the Montana Criminal Jury Instructions Commission, the Montana Evidence Commission, and is president-elect of the Montana Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. Ms. Holton served on the Montana Public Defender Commission from 2005 to 2008, the Ninth Circuit Advisory Rules Committee from 2004 to 2007, and was president of the Montana Chapter of the Federal Bar Association from 2004 to 2005. She received her J.D. in 1984 from the University of Montana School of Law and her L.L.M. from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Prettyman fellow. |
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was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California on October 9, 1997. He received his A.S. from the University of the Pacific’s School of Pharmacy in 1970 and his J.D. from the University of California, Boalt Hall, in 1973. Before going into private practice, Judge Ishii worked in Sacramento as a deputy city attorney from 1975 to 1979 and was a deputy public defender in Fresno County from 1979 to 1983. He was appointed to the Central Valley Municipal Court, Fresno County, in 1994 and served as a presiding judge in 1997. He maintains chambers in Fresno. |
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is a partner in the Century City office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where she is a member of the Business Solutions Department. Ms. Itkin is the chair-elect of the Lawyer Representatives Coordinating Committee and a member of the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Executive Committee. Ms. Itkin represents debtors, creditors, equity and bondholders committees, purchasers and trustees in corporate restructurings and bankruptcies in a wide variety of industries, including entertainment, retail, transportation, and hospitality, and advises high profile individuals and corporations in out-of-court workouts and financial transactions. She is responsible for launching the West Coast Restructurings Group. She is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy. |
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was confirmed as the 45th Solicitor General of the United States in March 2009. Prior to her confirmation, Solicitor General Kagan was the Charles Hamilton Houston professor of law and the 11th dean of Harvard Law School. During her nearly six-year tenure as dean, Harvard Law School expanded and enhanced its faculty, modernized its curriculum, developed new campus facilities and promoted public service. While on the faculty, she taught administrative law, constitutional law, civil procedure, and seminars on issues involving the separation of powers. From 1995 to 1999, Solicitor General Kagan served in the White House first as an associate counsel to the president from 1995 to 1996 and then as deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy and deputy director of the Domestic Policy Council from 1997 to 1999. She clerked for Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1986 to 1987. She clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court in 1988. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Princeton University in 1981. She attended Worcester College, Oxford, as Princeton’s Daniel M. Sach’s graduating fellow, and received an M.Phil. in 1983. She then attended Harvard Law School, where she was supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated magna cum laude in 1986. |
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is an award-winning contributing editor at Newsweek, where he has worked for 20 years. His cover stories have included profiles of Justices William Brennan and Clarence Thomas, George Steinbrenner, George Lucas and Rudy Giuliani, along with analyses of Supreme Court politics and the flaws of the capital punishment system. His 2006 cover story, “The Boss Who Spied on Her Board,” broke the Hewlett-Packard boardroom scandal, which forced the resignation of HP’s chairwoman and led to congressional investigations. Over the past decade, Kaplan has written three books. His last book, Mine’s Bigger (2007) was a biography of the largest private sailing yacht in the world and the Silicon Valley venture capitalist who built it; the book won the Gerald Loeb Award for best business book of the year. Kaplan is currently at work on The Age of Avarice, a look at the financial culture of the last 30 years. Prior to joining Newsweek, Kaplan practiced law on Wall Street, served as an intern for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and was a White House intern. |
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is general counsel of Competitive Enterprise Institute and heads CEI’s Death by Regulation project. This project focuses on raising public awareness of the often hidden costs of government overregulation. In 1992, Mr. Kazman won a federal appeals court ruling that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had illegally concealed the lethal effects on highway safety of its auto fuel economy standards. This marked the first judicial overturning of a fuel economy standard in the program’s history. He has also recently been involved in litigation on such issues as advertising restrictions, property rights and environmental regulation. Mr. Kazman received his J.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. |
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was appointed to the District of Hawaii on August 2, 1999 and reappointed in 2007. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1979 and her J.D. from Boston College School of Law in 1983. Prior to her appointment, Judge Kobayashi served as a deputy prosecuting attorney for the City and County of Honolulu and then spent 17 years in private practice in the law firm of Fujiyama, Duffy & Fujiyama, where she was a trial attorney and a managing partner. She has served on the Magistrate Judges Executive Board for the Ninth Circuit and as a bencher for the American Inns of Court, Aloha Inn. She maintains chambers in Honolulu. |
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was appointed United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit on November 7, 1985. He was elevated to chief judge of the circuit on December 1, 2007. He graduated from UCLA, receiving an A.B. degree in 1972, and from UCLA Law School, receiving a J.D. degree in 1975. Prior to his appointment to the appellate bench, Judge Kozinski served as Chief Judge of the U.S. Claims Court, 1982 to 1985; Special Counsel, Merit Systems Protection Board, 1981-82; Assistant Counsel, Office of Counsel to the President, 1981; Deputy Legal Counsel, Office of President-Elect Reagan, 1980-81; Attorney, Covington & Burling, 1979-81; Attorney, Forry Golbert Singer & Gelles, 1977-79; Law Clerk to Chief Justice Warren E Burger, 1976-77; and Law Clerk to Circuit Judge Anthony M. Kennedy, 1975-76. |
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was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on October 22, 1998, and has been chief district judge since September 2004. Prior to his appointment, he served as a Washington Superior Court judge, King County, for nine years. Judge Lasnik received his A.B. from Brandeis University; his master’s degrees in journalism and counseling from Northwestern University; and his J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law. He serves on the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council and is a member of the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Budget Committee, where he chairs the Congressional Outreach Subcommittee. Judge Lasnik chaired the Ninth Circuit’s Public Information and Community Outreach Committee for four years and served as program chair for the 2006 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference and conference chair in 2007. |
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is the founding editor of Above the Law, an award-winning legal blog that receives over 10 million page views per month. He founded Underneath Their Robes, a blog about federal judges, and served as editor of Wonkette, the widely read politics blog. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the New York Observer, Portfolio, New York Magazine, and Washingtonian Magazine. Before entering the media world, David worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, in New York; and a law clerk to the Honorable Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. David graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School. |
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is an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California. He is chair of the Lawyer Representatives Coordinating Committee and a member of the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Executive Committee. Mr. Latham was formerly with the San Diego office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, where his practice focused on business disputes, antitrust and class action suits alleging unfair competition. Mr. Latham has shown a longstanding dedication to pro bono work, with a special emphasis on representing seniors in elder abuse cases. He is a former member of the ABA House of Delegates. Following college, Mr. Latham was a graduate student in anthropology. His studies, which culminated in an M.Phil. degree, centered on traditional modes of subsistence and land use in the Pacific Islands. After receiving his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1992, Mr. Latham was a judicial clerk to District Judge Earl B. Gilliam of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. |
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is associate director of litigation at Intel Corporation, where she manages a wide variety of litigation including patent, antitrust, class action, and other commercial matters. She received her undergraduate degree from Brandeis University in 1985 and her law degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. Before joining Intel, she was a litigation partner at Crosby Heafey Roach & May in Northern California. In 2005, she moved to Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her husband and five children. |
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, is professor emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, and co-founder and chief scientific officer of Posit Science, where he heads the company’s global team. For more than three decades, he has been a leading pioneer in brain plasticity research. He was on the team that invented the cochlear implant in the late 1980s, now distributed by Advanced Bionics. In 1996 Dr. Merzenich was the founding CEO of Scientific Learning Corporation, which markets and distributes software that applies principles of brain plasticity to assist children with language learning and reading. Dr. Merzenich is widely published and often covered in the popular press. He has also appeared extensively on television, and his work was featured on the PBS specials “The Brain Fitness Program” and “Brain Fitness 2: Sight and Sound.” Dr. Merzenich earned his BS at the University of Portland and his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 and will be inaugurated into the Institute of Medicine this year. |
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was sworn in as the third Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on January 21, 2009. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Secretary Napolitano was mid-way through her second term as governor of the State of Arizona. While governor, she became the first woman to chair the National Governors Association, where she was instrumental in creating the Public Safety Task Force and the Homeland Security Advisors Council. Secretary Napolitano previously served as the attorney general of Arizona and the U.S. attorney for the District of Arizona. Her homeland security background is extensive. As U.S. attorney, she helped lead the domestic terrorism investigation into the Oklahoma City Bombing. As Arizona attorney general, she helped write the law to break up human smuggling rings. As governor, she implemented one of the first state homeland security strategies in the nation, opened the first state counter-terrorism center and spearheaded efforts to transform immigration enforcement. She has also been a pioneer in coordinating federal, state, local and bi-national homeland security efforts, and presided over large scale disaster relief efforts and readiness exercises to ensure well-crafted and functional emergency plans. Secretary Napolitano graduated from Santa Clara University in 1979, where she won a Truman Scholarship, and received her J.D in 1983 from the University of Virginia School of Law. After law school, she served as a law clerk for Circuit Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit before joining the law firm of Lewis and Roca. |
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was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on December 20, 1979, and assumed senior status on January 1, 1995. Prior to her appointment, Judge Nelson was dean of the University of Southern California Law School from 1969 to 1980. She is chair of the Ninth Circuit’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. She maintains her chambers in Pasadena. |
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is editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times with responsibilities for the editorial page, letters, op-ed and Sunday opinion sections. He has been responsible for overseeing local government and political coverage in Los Angeles and Orange counties. He was a staff writer for the Atlanta Journal & Constitution from 1987 to 1989; a clerk for the New York Times foreign desk from 1986 to 1987; and a clerk for James Reston from 1985 to 1986. He graduated with honors with a B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1985, where he was publisher of the college newspaper. He was part of the Pulitzer Prize winning team for coverage of the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake and has been recognized with a number of media awards. He is author of Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made, published in 2006 by Riverhead Books, Penguin USA. He is at work on a presidential biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower for Doubleday Books. |
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was appointed chief counsel of the California Air Resources Board in May 2008. She and her staff in the Office of Legal Affairs provide legal advice to the board and its executive staff on the development and implementation of air pollution control regulations and other matters. As a member of the board’s executive staff, Ms. Peter helps formulate policy recommendations to the board and its executive officer, including the implementation of California’s comprehensive greenhouse gas reduction mandates. In addition, she manages the Enforcement Division with more than 125 investigators and air pollution enforcement specialists. Previously, Ms. Peter was a supervising deputy attorney general in California’s Office of the Attorney General. Ms. Peter received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her J.D. from the George Washington University’s National Law Center in Washington, D.C. |
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has been the director of the Federal Judicial Center since 2003. She was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on February 20, 1980, and served as chief district judge from 1987 to 1994. Prior to her appointment, Judge Rothstein was a Washington Superior Court judge, King County, from 1977 to 1980. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Washington Law School from 1975 to 1977. Judge Rothstein received her B.A. from Cornell University in 1960 and her LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1966. |
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is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, and is the chair of the firm’s nationwide media and entertainment practice. She has more than 20 years of litigation experience in intellectual property and First Amendment-related litigation, including representation of television and radio broadcasters, cable companies, motion picture producers and distributors, production companies, newspaper and magazine publishers, book authors, and web site owners, both at the trial and appellate level of federal and state courts. Ms. Sager also serves on a number of non-profit boards and organizations, currently serving on the governing board of the ABA forum on communications law, and acting as vice chair of the Media committee for the International Bar Association, among others. She is the chair of the Conference Executive Committee. |
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is the first woman to serve as chief judge of the Ninth Circuit from 2000 to 2007. Nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit by President Carter, she was confirmed by the Senate in 1979. Prior to coming onto the federal bench, Judge Schroeder sat on the Arizona Court of Appeals from 1975 to 1979. She engaged in private practice with the law firm of Lewis and Roca in Phoenix, where she was the first woman to become a partner in a major law firm. She maintains chambers in Phoenix. |
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, was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on May 18, 2006. Prior to his appointment, Judge Smith was a managing partner, Smith Crane Robinson and Parker, LLP, from 1996 to 2006, and was a founding and managing partner at Smith & Hilbig, LLP, from 1972 to 1996. Judge Smith was president of the Los Angeles State Building Authority from 1983 to 1991 then general counsel from 1991 to 2006. He was vice chair of the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission from 1987 to 1991, and was an associate at O’Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles from 1969 to 1972. Judge Smith received his B.A. from Brigham Young University, cum laude, in 1966 and his J.D. in 1969 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he received a full tuition National Honor Scholarship from 1966 to 1969. He maintains chambers in El Segundo. |
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was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on March 19, 2007. Prior to his appointment to the federal bench, Judge Smith served as a district judge for the State of Idaho Sixth Judicial Circuit from 1995 to 2007. Judge Smith was an associate then partner at Merrill & Merrill, Chartered, in Pocatello, Idaho, from 1982 to 1995. He has been an adjunct professor at Boise State University since 1984. He was an adjunct professor at Boise State University from 1979 to 1981 and an associate then assistant general counsel at J.R. Simplot Company from 1977 to 1981. Judge Smith received his B.S. from Brigham Young University in 1974 and his J.D. from Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark School of Law in 1977. He maintains chambers in Pocatello. |
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was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on April 4, 2003. She was in private practice with the Tacoma firm of Burgess, Kennedy, Fitzer & Strombom from 1978 until she was appointed to the Washington Superior Court, Pierce County in 1990. She is the chair of the Ninth Circuit Magistrate Judges Executive Board. Judge Strombom received her B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point in 1974 and her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1978. |
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, is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation, a leader in global security. Northrop Grumman provides innovative systems, products, and solutions in aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and technical services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Northrop Grumman is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with sales of $34B, and employs 120,000 people in all 50 states and 25 countries. Dr. Sugar previously served as Litton Industries, Inc., president and chief operating officer prior to its acquisition by Northrop Grumman. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also received his master’s degree and doctorate. Dr. Sugar is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. |
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was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on January 4, 1996. Judge Thomas received his B.A., with honors, from Montana State University in 1975 and his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Montana School of Law in 1978. He was an administrative and legislative intern with the Montana Commissioner of Higher Education from 1974 to 1978 and a legal intern for District Judge W.W. Lessley, Montana State District Court, in 1976. He was director of Montana Legal Services Association from 1978 to 1981. Judge Thomas was in private practice and a shareholder with the firm of Mouton, Bellingham, Longan and Mather in Billings from 1978-1996. He maintains chambers in Billings. |
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is NPR’s award-winning legal affairs correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR’s critically acclaimed news magazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition. Ms. Totenberg’s coverage of the Supreme Court and legal affairs has won her widespread recognition and numerous awards. She was the first winner of the American Judicature Society Tony House Award for a career body of work and received Columbia University’s prestigious Alfred I. Dupont Award, the Long Island University George Polk Award for excellence in journalism, and the Joan S. Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based national affairs and public policy reporting. She has been honored seven times by the American Bar Association for continued excellence in legal reporting and has received a number of honorary degrees. She has written articles for the Harvard Law Review, the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, and numerous other publications.
Photo credit: ©2007 NPR, by Steve Barrett |
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was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on March 25, 1988, and assumed senior status on December 31, 2004. Prior to his appointment, he served as an assistant attorney general then associate attorney general, Department of Justice, Criminal Division, from 1983 to 1986 and from 1986 to 1988, respectively. He was the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California from 1981 to 1983. Judge Trott received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1962 and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1965. He maintains chambers in Boise. |
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, is founder and CEO of MotionDSP, a San Mateo, California-based startup that develops “CSI-style” video enhancement technology. The company offers its patented multi-frame video enhancement in software products for video forensics, and has recently launched a consumer product, “vReveal,” released in partnership with NVIDIA in March 2009. MotionDSP’s investors include InQTel, the strategic investment arm of U.S. intelligence agencies, and NVIDIA, the leading manufacturer of discrete computer graphics chips. Dr. Varah has worked on both sides of the table in venture capital, having both funded and co-founded several startup companies. An investment in Keyhole Inc., which was acquired by Google in 2004, is now Google Earth. Before his career in Silicon Valley, Dr. Varah was an active composer and academic. In 1994, he built the Harvard Computer Music Center, and served there as the associate director and lecturer on music for three years. His compositions have been performed in Carnegie Hall, the National Arts Center in Ottawa, Canada, and broadcast on NPR and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Dr. Varah received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a doctorate in composition from Columbia University. |
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was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on March 15, 2004. He received his B.A. from Arizona State University in 1971 and his J.D. from Harvard University in 1974. He is admitted to practice in Arizona, Colorado, and the Navajo Nation. From 1974 to 2004, he engaged in a litigation practice in Phoenix, primarily in the fields of business, administrative, constitutional, election, Indian law, and appellate litigation. He practiced in several law firms, including his own firm. Judge Wake was listed in The Best Lawyers in America for business litigation from 1989 until leaving law practice and has been a fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers since 1993. He served on the State Bar of Arizona’s Civil Practice and Procedure Committee for nearly 20 years, authored chapters on administrative law in the Arizona Appellate Handbook since 1980, and was chair of the State Bar Appellate Practice Section from 2003 to 2004. He is the chair of the Committee on Local Rules of Practice, Arizona U.S. District Court, from 2006 to present, and of the Case Management Committee of the Conference of Chief District Judges of the Ninth Circuit. |
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is the district court executive and clerk of court for the District of Arizona. He has served as a federal court administrator for 32 years, beginning with eight years in the Eastern District of New York from 1977 to 1985 and continuing to the District of Arizona from 1985 to present. Mr. Weare received his B.A. from Creighton University in 1970; his M.P.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1974; and his M.S. from the University of Denver Law School in 1975. Mr. Weare was the recipient of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts’ Director’s Award for Outstanding Leadership. He is a member of the Executive Compensation Working Group and of the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Executive Committee. |
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, is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins and is the firm’s Global co-chair of the Climate Change Practice Group. Mr. Wyman’s experience includes practicing in the areas of air quality, climate change, energy and transportation. He represents businesses and trade associations in a wide variety of sectors (e.g., aerospace, automotive, cement, cosmetics, energy, entertainment, land development) on regulatory, judicial and legislative matters. He has designed several market-based programs, including the South Coast Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), the clean air investment fund (contained in President Clinton’s Directive to EPA regarding the new ozone and fine particulate standards) and EPA’s clean air communities program. He has advised clients on a variety of other emissions trading programs, including the California Air Resources Board’s low emissions vehicle regulation and federal and state versions of the Clean Air Act’s New Source Review (NSR) program. Mr. Wyman received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1976 and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1980. |
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was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on December 5, 2005. Prior to her appointment, Judge Bencivengo was in private practice as an associate and partner at DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary LLP in San Diego (formerly Gray Cary Ware & Friedenrich), from 1985 to 2005. She was a national co-chair of the firm’s Patent Litigation Practice Group. Judge Bencivengo received her B.A. and her M.A. from Rutgers University in 1980 and 1981, respectively, and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1988. Judge Bencivengo serves as chair of the Ninth Circuit Magistrate Judges Education Committee. She maintains chambers in San Diego. |
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was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa in 1985. She has managed complex litigation such as asbestos, tobacco and major products liability cases, specializes in alternate dispute resolution, and carries a full civil and criminal caseload in addition to her responsibilities on the JCUS Space & Facilities Committee. She teaches ADR and other topics for the Federal Judicial Center, and has been an adjunct professor of law at Drake University and teaches leadership for the Drake School of Education. Judge Bremer has served as a consultant for international ADR projects and judicial education. Prior to her judicial service, she was corporate counsel, in private practice, and a prosecutor. She holds a doctorate in adult education. She maintains chambers in Des Moines. |
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is a certified specialist in estate planning, trust and probate law, the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. Her focus is on estate planning, probate, post death trust administration, related business issues, and business succession. She also engages in business entity formation and maintenance. Ms. Crane is admitted to practice in California, the District of Columbia, South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio and before the United States Tax Court. She received her B.A. from Boston College, summa cum laude, in 1975; her J.D. from Emory University in 1980; and her LLM in taxation, with highest honors, from George Washington University in 1984. |
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was appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California on August 1, 2006. He is chair of the Bankruptcy Judges Education Committee. Prior to his appointment, Judge Efremsky was a partner with the law firm of Efremsky & Nagel representing corporate clients throughout California and served as advisory counsel to the Chapter 13 Standing Trustees for the Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose and Santa Rosa divisions of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. Judge Efremsky received his B.S. from Menlo College in 1978 and his J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law in 1983. He maintains chambers in San Jose. |
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specializes in creditors’ rights and insolvency law while also focusing on commercial litigation and bankruptcy. He is currently a member of the board of directors for the American College of Bankruptcy. Mr. Kilpatrick was inducted as a fellow into the American College of Bankruptcy in March 1999 and appointed to the board of directors in July 2001. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1973 and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1982. He is a frequent lecturer on consumer and commercial bankruptcy. |
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was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota in 1985. She presently serves as a member of the JCUS Committee on Information Technology, and formerly served on the JCUS Committee on the Administration of the Magistrate Judges System. Judge Klein recently completed a term on the FJC Board and formerly served as chair of the FJC’s Magistrate Judge Education Committee, through which she participated in planning and presenting judicial education programs. Judge Klein is a past president of the Federal Magistrate Judges Association. She maintains chambers in Fargo. |
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was appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California on April 23, 1993, and was reappointed to a second 14-year term in 2007. He was elevated to chief bankruptcy judge of the Ninth Circuit’s Bankruptcy Appellate Panel on a vote by his fellow judges on the BAP, and his term will run through 2010, when he is scheduled to step down from the BAP after 10 years of service. Prior to coming onto the bench, he headed the Creditors Rights and Bankruptcy Group at the law firm of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro. He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a former member of the National Bankruptcy Conference. A native of San Francisco, Judge Montali received his bachelor’s degree in 1961 from the University of Notre Dame, and his juris doctorate in 1968 from the University of California at Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law. He served on active duty with the Naval Reserve from 1961 to 1965. He maintains chambers in San Francisco. |
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was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California on June 26, 1991, serving as presiding magistrate judge from 2002 to 2006. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Papas was in sole practice for 17 years, specializing in business, real estate and professional negligence litigation. He served as a prosecutor, defense counsel and review officer, U.S. Marine Corps Office of the Staff Judge Advocate (JAG), from 1969 to 1973. Judge Papas attended Northwest Missouri State University and the University of Nebraska, graduating with an A.B. in 1966 and received his J.D. from Drake University Law School in 1969. While serving in the military, he also attended and received degrees from the Naval Justice School and the National College of District Attorneys. Judge Papas was chosen as Outstanding Judge of the Year in 2003 by the San Diego County Bar Association and in 2007 by the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego. He is an advisor to the San Diego County Ethics Committee and an active member of the San Diego County Bar Association Children at Risk Committee. He is also a master in the Enright Inn of Court, serves on the Ninth Circuit Automation Committee, and the U.S. Forms Working Group Committee. He maintains chambers in San Diego. |
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was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on September 9, 1999. She has served on the Ninth Circuit Jury Instructions Committee, currently sits on the Ninth Circuit Education Committee, and also served as a member of the Rules Committee which revised the Western District’s local rules. In 2004 and 2005, she traveled to Uganda and Malawi to instruct native practitioners in trial advocacy skills as part of a teaching team sponsored by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Prior to her appointment to the federal bench, she sat for 11 years as a Washington Superior Court Judge, King County, serving on the Executive Committee and as a member of the court’s committees devoted to ethics, education, jury, mental health and personnel issues. She received her B.A from Cornell University in 1973 and her J.D. from Boston University Law School in 1976. She maintains chambers in Seattle. |
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was appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Washington on November 1, 1996. Prior to joining the bench, Judge Snyder was a partner at the Tacoma law firms of Davies Pearson, P.C., and McGavick Graces, P.S., specializing in creditor/debtor issues, commercial litigation, and health care law. Judge Snyder is a past member of the Creditor-Debtor Executive Committee of the Washington Bar Association. He is a member of the Ninth Circuit Information Technology Committee, emeritus member of the Hon. Robert J. Bryan Inns of Court and on several subcommittees of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. He maintains chambers in Tacoma. |
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is a supervising staff attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and has been with the court since 1994. Since 2007, Susan has been the legal liaison in the court’s move to appellate CM/ECF. She has trained over 600 attorneys and their staff on how to electronically file in the Ninth Circuit. Susan has been a legal writing and research instructor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and has served on the State Bar of California’s Committee on Appellate Courts. She received her J.D. from the University of Buffalo Law School. |
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is partner and chair of the national appellate practice at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, the nation’s largest business litigation firm. She served as the 11th dean of Stanford Law School from 1999 to 2004, and remains on the Stanford faculty as the Stanley Morrison professor of law. Prior to joining the Stanford law faculty in 1993, she was a professor of law at Harvard Law School for nearly a decade. A widely known constitutional scholar, Ms. Sullivan edits the classic casebook Constitutional Law and has published a wide range of law review articles on constitutional law and theory. She has argued five cases before the Supreme Court, most recently obtaining a 5-4 win for California wineries in the interstate direct shipment of wine and an 8-1 victory for Shell Oil Company limiting CERCLA arranger liability. She has also argued numerous cases in the United States Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, Fifth, Federal and especially the Ninth Circuit, as well as various cases in state courts including the New York Court of Appeals and the Delaware Chancery Court. Ms. Sullivan holds a B.A. from Cornell University, where she was a Telluride Scholar, an M.A. from Oxford University, which she attended as a Marshall Scholar, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she won the Ames Moot Court Competition. She is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. |
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is a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School and is of counsel with the National Consumer Law Center. She is co-author of the National Consumer Law Center’s Bankruptcy Basics (2007) and Foreclosures (2d ed. 2007). She is also the amicus project director for the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys and a contributing author for Collier Bankruptcy Practice Guide. Ms. Twomey received her B.A. from the University of California at San Diego and her J.D., summa cum laude, from Boston College Law School. Formerly a clinical instructor at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, Ms. Twomey was also a lecturer in law at Harvard Law School and an adjunct faculty member at Boston College Law School. |
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has served as a bankruptcy judge in the Northern District of Illinois for 20 years and served as chief judge from 2002 to 2007. After graduating from the College and Law School of the University of Chicago, Judge Wedoff became a partner and member of the Executive Committee at the Chicago law firm of Jenner & Block. Since 2004, Judge Wedoff has served on the Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules. He is currently serving as the American Bankruptcy Institute’s vice president for Communication & Information Technology and as secretary of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges. He is a fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference. He maintains chambers in Chicago. |
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