Patricia Ann McGowan Wald was an American judge who served as the Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She was the first woman to be appointed to the D.C. Circuit and the first to serve as Chief Judge of that court. She served as a member of the American Bar Association's International Criminal Court Project and on the Council of the American Law Institute.
The Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School. According to the Journal Citation Reports,the Harvard Law Review's 2015 impact factor of 4.979 placed the journal first out of 143 journals in the category "Law". It is published monthly from November through June,with the November issue dedicated to covering the previous year's term of the Supreme Court of the United States. The journal also publishes the online-only Harvard Law Review Forum,a rolling journal of scholarly responses to the main journal's content. The law review is one of three honors societies at the law school,along with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and the Board of Student Advisors. Students who are selected for more than one of these three organizations may only join one.
Laurence Hirsch Silberman was an American lawyer,diplomat,jurist,and government official who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1985 until his death. He was appointed in October 1985 by President Ronald Reagan and took senior status on November 1,2000. On June 11,2008,President George W. Bush awarded Silberman the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 31,2005,and has served since January 31,2006. He is the second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court—after Antonin Scalia—and the eleventh Catholic.
District of Columbia home rule is District of Columbia residents' ability to govern their local affairs. As the federal capital,the Constitution grants the United States Congress exclusive jurisdiction over the District in "all cases whatsoever".
Crime in Washington,D.C.,is directly related to the city's demographics,geography,and unique criminal justice system. The District's population reached a peak of 802,178 in 1950. Shortly after that,the city began losing residents,and by 1980 Washington had lost one-quarter of its population. The population loss to the suburbs also created a new demographic pattern,which divided affluent neighborhoods west of Rock Creek Park from the less well-off neighborhoods to the east.
The Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) is a 501(c)(6) organization representing Hispanics in the legal profession,including attorneys,judges,law professors,legal assistant and paralegals,and law students in the United States and its territories.
John Deacon Bates is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in December 2001,and has adjudicated several cases directly affecting the office of the President. Bates served as Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts,from July 1,2013 to January 5,2015,after which he returned to full-time service as a District Judge.
Robert David Sack is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Michael Bernard Mukasey is an American attorney and former federal judge who served as the 81st Attorney General of the United States from 2007 to 2009.
Thomas H. Tongue was an American politician and attorney in the state of Oregon. Born in England,his family immigrated to Washington County,Oregon,in 1859. In Oregon,he would serve in the State Senate from 1889 to 1893 and was the seventh mayor of Hillsboro. A Republican,he was chairman of the state party,and national convention delegate in 1892. Tongue served as Congressman from 1897 to 1903 representing Oregon's 1st congressional district.
Terrance William Gainer is a former law enforcement officer and was the 38th Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate and served in that position from January 4,2007 to May 2,2014.
Irve Lewis "Scooter" Libby is an American lawyer and former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney known for his high-profile indictment.
Todd Sunhwae Kim is an American attorney serving as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division. He earlier served as the first Solicitor General for the District of Columbia for nearly 12 years. He was twice nominated by President Barack Obama for the District of Columbia Court of Appeals,but the Senate held no hearings on his nominations,which expired without action.
Frederick Whitten Peters is a District of Columbia lawyer and senior level public official. His law practice specializes in civil and criminal litigation including contract fraud,antitrust,tax and security cases. He has served in several key positions within the U.S. federal government,including as Secretary of the Air Force.
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 is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky. He was also President 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.
Beryl Alaine Howell is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was a federal judge supervising the grand jury for special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
Steven Paul Croley is an American lawyer,Chief Policy Officer and General Counsel of Ford Motor Company and the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor. His practice areas include law reform,legal policy,regulation,oversight,and political law,with special emphasis on energy and the environment. His academic research and writing focus on administrative law,civil procedure,good government,and regulatory policy.
The Attorney General for the District of Columbia is the chief legal officer of the District of Columbia. While attorneys general previously were appointed by the mayor,District of Columbia voters approved a charter amendment in 2010 that made the office an elected position beginning in 2015.
Florence Yu Pan is an American attorney who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She is a former associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
