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James Scott Sledge has been appointed to the position of Chief Copyright Royalty Judge. He will serve a term of six years, subject to reappointment to additional terms.
Mr. Sledge recently retired as a United States bankruptcy judge in the Northern District of Alabama, where he served since 1991. As a federal judge in Northern Alabama, Judge Sledge presided over a heavy volume of cases, while he worked with national judges’ organizations.
Mr. Sledge was the chair of the Judicial Division of the American Bar Association, the largest judges’ organization in the world, and he was the first Article 1 judge to become the chair of the National Conference of Federal Trial Judges. In addition to his duties as a bankruptcy judge, he served twelve years on the Alabama State Council on the Arts, where he was chair for two years. Other arts jobs include service as a director on the regional Southern Arts Federation, representing Alabama, a director of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and Alabama advocacy captain for Americans for the Arts. [1]
Dennis Webster DeConcini is an American lawyer, philanthropist, politician and former Democratic U.S. Senator from Arizona. The son of former Arizona Supreme Court Judge Evo Anton DeConcini, he represented Arizona in the United States Senate from 1977 until 1995. After his re-election in 1988, no Arizona Democrats were elected to the United States Senate for 30 years until Kyrsten Sinema won his former seat in 2018.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. is a leading United States civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City.
Larry Paul Langford was an American politician who had a one-term tenure as the mayor of the city of Birmingham, Alabama. At the time of his death, Langford was hospitalized on compassionate release from serving a 15-year federal felony sentence.
William Proctor Gould Harding was an American banker. He was the 2nd Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and also served as the managing director of the War Finance Corporation.
Thomas Benjamin Banks, LL.D. was a Canadian pianist, conductor, arranger, composer, television personality and senator.
Frank Minis Johnson Jr. was a United States District Judge and United States Circuit Judge serving 1955 to 1999 on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He made landmark civil rights rulings that helped end segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans in the South. In the words of journalist and historian Bill Moyers, Judge Johnson "altered forever the face of the South."
Patrick Errol Higginbotham is an American judge and lawyer who serves as a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Stanley C. Wisniewski is an American copyright royalty judge specializing in economics.
Canadian Artists' Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC) is a non-profit corporation that serves as the national voice of Canada's professional visual artists.
Magnolia Cemetery is a historic city cemetery located in Mobile, Alabama. Filled with many elaborate Victorian-era monuments, it spans more than 100 acres (40 ha). It served as Mobile's primary, and almost exclusive, burial place during the 19th century. It is the final resting place for many of Mobile's 19th and early 20th century citizens. The cemetery is roughly bounded by Frye Street to the north, Gayle Street to the east, and Ann Street to the west. Virginia Street originally formed the southern border before the cemetery was expanded and now cuts east–west through the center of the cemetery. Magnolia contains more than 80,000 burials and remains an active, though very limited, burial site today.
Paul Arthur Magnuson is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Robert Smith Vance Sr. was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and later the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He was one of three 20th century United States federal court judges assassinated because of his judicial service.
Virginia Mary Kendall is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. President George W. Bush appointed her to the bench on January 3, 2006. In addition to serving on the bench, Judge Kendall is also a noted expert on child exploitation and human trafficking, as well as an adjunct law professor and author.
Michael Joseph Melloy is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Ralph Oman is an American lawyer and former Register of Copyrights. He is currently the Pravel, Hewitt, Kimball and Kreiger Professorial Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Patent Law at The George Washington University Law School.
Jimmie V. Reyna is an American lawyer, former president of the Hispanic National Bar Association, and currently a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Reyna was nominated to the Federal Circuit on September 29, 2010. When nominated, he received the highest rating possible by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary: "Unanimously Well Qualified." On April 4, 2011, the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination by a roll-call vote of 86-0.
Edward J. Damich is an American attorney and jurist serving as a Senior Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, appointed to that court in 1998 by President Bill Clinton, and elevated to Chief Judge in 2002 by President George W. Bush.
Eric Gerard Bruggink is a Senior Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, having served as an active member of that court from 1986 to 2001.
Kathleen Nagler Straus served as a member of the Michigan State Board of Education from 1993–2016. She has been continuously involved in civic organizations in Michigan, since moving to Detroit in 1952. Her volunteer and professional roles have included the Presidency of the League of Women Voters of Detroit, Executive Director of People and Responsible Organizations (PRO) for Detroit, President of the Michigan State Board of Education, and Secretary of the National Association of State Boards of Education.
Elizabeth Lee "Lisa" Branch is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is a former judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
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