The honorable Allyson K. Duncan spent fifteen years on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 2003 to 2019. She was nominated to the federal judiciary by President George W. Bush and confirmed by a unanimous…
Jeremy Fogel is the first Executive Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute, a center at Berkeley Law School whose mission is to build bridges between judges and academics and to promote an ethical, resilient and independent judiciary. Prior to his…
Royal Furgeson, Jr. retired as a United States District Judge in 2013 after 19 years on the bench. A graduate of Texas Tech University in 1964 and the University of Texas School of Law in 1967, he was named the…
The Honorable James T. Giles served as a judge and later chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. President Jimmy Carter appointed him in 1979, and the Senate confirmed his appointment that same…
In 1994 when Judge Vanessa Diane Gilmore was sworn in, she was then the youngest sitting federal judge in the nation. The native of Silver Spring, Maryland was also the youngest member of her freshman class at her alma mater,…
Thomas B. Griffith was appointed to the U. S. Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit by President George W. Bush in 2005. He stepped down from the court in 2020 and is now Special Counsel at Hunton Andrews…
Hon. Paul W. Grimm (Ret.) is a mediator, special master/referee and neutral evaluator who concluded an illustrious 25-year career on the federal bench, first as a magistrate judge and most recently as a district court judge for the District of…