Thomas Slade Gorton III was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator from Washington from 1981 to 1987,and again from 1989 to 2001. A member of the Republican Party,he held both of the state's U.S. Senate seats in his career and was narrowly defeated for reelection twice,first in 1986 by Brock Adams and again in 2000 by Maria Cantwell following a recount,becoming the last Republican senator to date for each seat.
Jed Saul Rakoff is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Ropes &Gray LLP is a global law firm with 13 offices located in the United States,Asia and Europe. The firm has more than 1,500 lawyers and professionals worldwide;its clients include corporations and financial institutions,government agencies,universities,and health care organizations. It was founded in 1865 in Boston by John Codman Ropes and John Chipman Gray.
Denny Chin is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,based in New York City. He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York before joining the federal appeals bench. President Bill Clinton nominated Chin to the district court on March 24,1994,and Chin was confirmed August 9 of that same year. On October 6,2009,President Barack Obama nominated Chin to the Second Circuit. He was confirmed on April 22,2010,by the United States Senate,filling the vacancy created by Judge Robert D. Sack who assumed senior status. Chin was the first Asian American appointed as a United States District Judge outside of the Ninth Circuit.
William Glover Young is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a senior U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He previously was a judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court from 1978 to 1985.
Loretta A. Preska is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Born in Albany,Preska received law degrees from Fordham University School of Law and New York University School of Law. She practiced law in New York City from 1973 to 1992 at the law firms of Cahill Gordon &Reindel and Hertzog,Calamari &Gleason. President George H. W. Bush appointed her to the district bench in 1992. She served as chief judge of the court for a seven-year term from 2009 to 2016,and took senior status in 2017. President George W. Bush nominated Preska to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2008,but the Senate did not act on the nomination.
Edward Robert Korman is a senior United States district judge serving on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York,in Brooklyn,New York.
Daniel Thomas Kozachi Hurley is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Pauline Newman is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. She has been called "the heroine of the patent system","the Federal Circuit's most prolific dissenter",and "the greatest ally to inventors with respect to [calling out] the ignorance of the CAFC,district courts,and at times even the Supreme Court". Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore commented of Newman that "many of her dissents have later gone on to become the law—either the en banc law from our court or spoken on high from the Supremes".
Edward James Devitt was a United States representative from Minnesota and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
William Peter Dimitrouleas is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
Rya Weickert Zobel is a Senior United States District Court Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Blanche Marie Manning was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Amul Roger Thapar is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He previously served as a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2008 to 2017 and as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2006 to 2008. Thapar was President Donald Trump's first Court of Appeals appointment and Trump's second judicial appointment after Justice Neil Gorsuch. Thapar was discussed as a candidate for the Supreme Court of the United States.
Douglas Preston Woodlock is a United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Born in Connecticut,Woodlock graduated from Yale College and worked as a journalist before attending Georgetown University Law Center. After graduating,Woodlock was a lawyer in private practice at the law firm of Goodwin,Procter &Hoar,and had stints at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts. Appointed to the federal bench in 1986,Woodlock presided over a number of noteworthy cases and was a key figure in the construction of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on the Boston waterfront. He assumed senior status in 2015.
Indira Talwani is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Allison Dale Burroughs is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Andrew E. Lelling is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 2017 to 2021. He is best known for leading Operation Varsity Blues,the federal investigation and prosecution of a massive nationwide college admissions scandal,He also oversaw the largest-ever prosecution of MS-13,which all but eliminated the notorious Salvadoran gang in the Boston area and the prosecution of six eBay employees involved in the eBay stalking scandal which involved the terrorizing of a middle-aged couple living in greater Boston,Massachusetts. His tenure was also marked by major gang and healthcare enforcement actions. Lelling,however,was also criticized by some as being "overzealous,grandstanding,and politically motivated" for his prosecution of a local trial judge who helped an undocumented immigrant charged with drug crimes avoid arrest by immigration authorities.
Alan D Albright is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. He was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the same court. Albright oversees a significant portion of patent litigation within the United States. In 2021,the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit repeatedly rebuked him in a string of opinions for failing to transfer cases to more apt jurisdictions. A quarter of all patent lawsuits in the US were once heard by Albright,who has been widely criticized for ignoring binding case law. However,following a docket-stripping order issued by Chief Judge Orlando Garcia,Albright's patent docket has declined precipitously.
Aileen Mercedes Cannon is a Colombian-born American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida since 2020. As president,Donald Trump nominated and appointed Canon to the federal bench after confirmation by the U.S. Senate in November 2020. Cannon worked for the corporate law firm Gibson Dunn from 2009 to 2012 and was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida from 2013 to 2020.
