UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse, 333 Constitution Avenue, Room

4106, 20001 phone (202) 354-3320, fax 354-3412

THOMAS F. HOGAN, chief judge; born in Washington, DC, May 31, 1938; son of Adm. Bartholomew W. (MC) (USN) Surgeon Gen., USN, 1956-62, and Grace (Gloninger) Hogan; Georgetown Preparatory School, 1956; A.B., Georgetown University (classical), 1960; master's program, American and English literature, George Washington University, 1960-62; J.D., Georgetown University, 1965-66; Honorary Degree, Doctor of Laws, Georgetown University Law Center, May 1999; St. Thomas More Fellow, Georgetown University Law Center, 1965-66; American Jurisprudence Award: Corporation Law; member: bars of the District of Columbia and Maryland; law clerk to Hon. William B. Jones, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1966-67; counsel, Federal Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws, 1967-68; private practice of law in the District of Columbia and Maryland, 1968-82; adjunct professor of law, Potomac School of Law, 1977-79; adjunct professor of law, Georgetown University Law Center, 1986-88; public member, officer evaluation board, U.S. Foreign Service, 1973; member: American Bar Association, State Chairman, Maryland Drug Abuse Education Program, Young Lawyers Section, 1970-73, District of Columbia Bar Association, Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Maryland State Bar Association, Montgomery County Bar Association, served on many committees, National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Defense Research Institute; chairman, board of directors, Christ Child Institute for Emotionally Ill Children, 1971-74; member, The Barristers, The Lawyers Club, USDC Executive Committee; Conference Committee on Administration of Federal Magistrates System 1988-91; Chairman Inter-Circuit Assignment Committee, 1990-; appointed judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Ronald Reagan on October 4, 1982. Chief Judge June 19, 2001; member: Judicial Conference of the United States 2001-; Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference July 2001-present.

ROYCE C. LAMBERTH, judge; born in San Antonio, TX, July 16, 1943; son of Nell Elizabeth Synder and Larimore S. Lamberth, Sr.; South San Antonio High School, 1961; B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1966; LL.B., University of Texas School of Law, 1967; permanent president, class of 1967, University of Texas School of Law; 1967-74, U.S. Army (Captain, Judge Advocate General's Corps, 1968-74; Vietnam Service Medal, Air Medal, Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, Meritorious Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster); 1974-87, assistant U.S. attorney, District of Columbia (chief, civil division, 1978-87); President's Reorganization Project, Federal Legal Representation Study, 1978-79; honorary faculty, Army Judge Advocate General's School, 1976; Attorney General's Special Commendation Award; Attorney General's John Marshall Award, 1982; vice chairman, Armed Services and Veterans Affairs Committee, Section on Administrative Law, American Bar Association, 1979-82, chairman, 1983- 84; chairman, Professional Ethics Committee, 1989-91; co-chairman, Committee of Article III Judges, Judiciary Section 1989-present; chairman, Federal Litigation Section, 1986-87; chairman, Federal Rules Committee, 1985-86; deputy chairman, Council of the Federal Lawyer, 1980-83; chairman, Career Service Committee, Federal Bar Association, 1978-80; appointed judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Ronald Reagan, November 16, 1987; appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist to be Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, May 1995-2002.

GLADYS KESSLER, judge; born in New York, NY, January 22, 1938; Education: B.A., Cornell University, 1959; LL.B. Harvard Law School, 1962; member: American Judicature Society (board of directors, 1985-89); National Center for State Courts (board of directors, 1984-87); National Association of Women Judges (president, 1983-84); Women Judges' Fund for Justice, (president, 1980-82); Fellows of the American Bar Foundation; President's Council of Cornell Women; American Law Institute; American Bar Association--committees: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bioethics and AIDS; Executive Committee, Conference of Federal Trial Judges; private law practice--partner, Roisman, Kessler and Cashdan, 1969-77; associate judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1977-94; court administrative activities: District of Columbia Courts Joint Committee on Judicial Administration, 1989-94; Domestic Violence Coordinating Council (chairperson, 1993-94); Multi-Door Dispute Resolution Program (supervising judge, 1985-90); family division, D.C. Superior Court (presiding judge, [[Page 844]] 1981-85); Einshac Institute Board of Directors; appointed judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Bill Clinton, June 16, 1994, and took oath of office, July 18, 1994; U.S. Judicial Conference Committee on Court Administration and Court Management; Frederick B. Abramson Memorial Foundation Board of Directors; Our Place Board of Directors; Vice Chair, District of Columbia Judicial Disabilities and Tenure Commission.

PAUL L. FRIEDMAN, judge; born in Buffalo, NY, February 20, 1944; son of Cecil A. and Charlotte Wagner Friedman; education: B.A. (political science), Cornell University, 1965; J.D., cum laude, School of Law, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1968; admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, New York, U.S. Supreme Court, and U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C., Federal, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits; Law Clerk to Judge Aubrey E. Robinson, Jr., U.S. district court for the District of Columbia, 1968-69; Law Clerk to Judge Roger Robb, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1969-70; Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1970-74; assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, 1974-76; associate independent counsel, Iran-Contra investigation, 1987-88, private law practice, White and Case (partner, 1979-94; associate, 1976- 79); member: American Bar Association, Commission on Multidisciplinary Practice (1998-2000), District of Columbia bar (president, 1986-87), American Law Institute (1984) and ALI Council, 1998, American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, Washington Bar Association, Hispanic Bar Association, Assistant United States Attorneys Association of the District of Columbia (president, 1976-77), Civil Justice Reform Act Advisory Group (chair, 1991-94), District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission (member, 1990-94; chair, 1992-94), Advisory Committee on Procedures, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (1982-88), Grievance Committee; U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (member, 1981-87; chair, 1983-85); fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; fellow, American Bar Foundation; board of directors: Frederick B. Abramson Memorial Foundation (president, 1991-94), Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts (1988-92), Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless (member, 1987-92; vice-president 1988-91), Stuart Stiller Memorial Foundation (1980-94), American Judicature Society (1990-94), District of Columbia Public Defender Service (1989-92); member: Cosmos Club, Lawyers Club of Washington; appointed judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President William Clinton, June 16, 1994, and took oath of office August 1, 1994; U.S. Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Federal Criminal Rules.

RICARDO M. URBINA, judge; 59, sits on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia; born of an Honduran father and Puerto Rican mother in Manhattan, New York; attended Georgetown University and Georgetown Law Center before working as a staff attorney with the D.C. Public Defender Service; after a period of private practice with an emphasis on commercial litigation, joined the faculty of Howard University School of Law, during which time he maintained a private practice; directed the university's criminal justice clinic and taught criminal law, criminal procedure and torts; voted Professor of the Year by the Howard Law School student body, 1978; nominated to the D.C. Superior Court by President Carter, 1980; appointed to the bench as President Reagan's first presidential judicial appointment and the first Hispanic judge in the history of the District of Columbia, 1981; during his thirteen years on the Superior Court, Judge Urbina served as Chief Presiding Judge of the Family Division for three years and chaired the committee that drafted the Child Support Guidelines later adopted as the District of Columbia's child support law; managed a criminal calendar 1989-90 that consisted exclusively of first degree murder, rape and child molestation cases; designated by the Chief Judge to handle a special calendar consisting of complex civil litigation; twice recognized by the United States Department of Health and Human Services for his work with children and families; selected one of the Washingtonians of the Year by Washington Magazine, 1986; received Hugh Johnson Memorial Award for his many contributions to ``. . . the creation of harmony among diverse elements of the community and the bar by D.C. Hispanic Bar Association;'' received the Hispanic National Bar Association's 1993 award for demonstrated commitment to the ``Preservation of Civil and Constitutional Rights of All Americans'', and the 1995 NBC-Hispanic Magazine National VIDA Award in recognition of lifetime community service; adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School since 1993; served as a visiting instructor of trial advocacy at the Harvard Law School, 1996-97; appointment by President Clinton to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 1994 made him the first Latino ever appointed to the federal bench in Washington, D.C.; Latino Civil Rights Center presented him with the Justice Award in 1999; conferred Distinguished Adjunct Teacher Award by George Washington University Law School in 2001 and in 2005 has been awarded the David Seidlson Chair for Trial Advocacy. [[Page 845]]

EMMET G. SULLIVAN, judge; born in Washington, DC; graduated McKinley High School, 1964; B.A., Howard University, 1968; J.D., Howard University Law School, 1971; law clerk to Judge James A. Washington, Jr.; joined the law firm of Houston and Gardner, 1973-80, became a partner; thereafter was a partner with Houston, Sullivan and Gardner; board of directors of the D.C. Law Students in Court Program; D.C. Judicial Conference Voluntary Arbitration Committee; Nominating Committee of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia; U.S. District Court Committee on Grievances; adjunct professor at Howard University School of Law; member: National Bar Association, Washington Bar Association, Bar Association of the District of Columbia; appointed by President Reagan to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia as an associate judge, 1984; deputy presiding judge and presiding judge of the probate and tax division; chairperson of the rules committees for the probate and tax divisions; member: Court Rules Committee and the Jury Plan Committee; appointed by President George Bush to serve as an associate judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1991; chairperson for the nineteenth annual judicial conference of the District of Columbia, 1994. The Conference theme was ``Rejuvenating Juvenile Justice--Responses to the Problems of Juvenile Violence in the District of Columbia''; appointed by chief judge Wagner, to chair the ``Task Force on Families and Violence for the District of Columbia Courts''; nominated to the U.S. District Court by President William Clinton on March 22, 1994; and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 15, 1994. Appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist to serve on the Federal Judicial Conference Committee on Criminal Law, 1998; District of Columbia Judicial Disabilities and Tenure Commission, 1996-2001; presently serving on the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission; first person in the District of Columbia to have been appointed to three judicial positions by three different U.S. Presidents.

JAMES ROBERTSON, judge; born Cleveland, OH, May 18, 1938; son of Frederick Irving and Doris (Byars) Robertson; educated at Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, OH; A.B., Princeton University, 1959 (Woodrow Wilson School); served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, on destroyers and in the Office of Naval Intelligence, 1959-64; LL.B., George Washington University, 1965 (editor-in-chief, George Washington Law Review); admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, 1966; associate, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, 1965-69; chief counsel, litigation office, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Jackson, MS, 1969-70; executive director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, 1971-72; partner, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, 1973-94; co-chair, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1985-87; president, Southern Africa Legal Services and Legal Education Project, Inc., 1989-94; president, District of Columbia bar, 1991-92; fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; fellow, American Bar Foundation; member, American Law Institute; appointed U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia by President Clinton on October 11, 1994 and took oath of office on December 31, 1994; Member, Judicial Conference Committee on Information Technology, 1996-present, chair, 2002-present. Member, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, 2001-present.

COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY, judge; born in New York City; daughter of Konstantine and Irene Kollar; attended bilingual schools in Mexico, Ecuador and Venezuela, and Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in Washington, D.C.; received B.A. degree in English at Catholic University (Delta Epsilon Honor Society); received J.D. at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law (Moot Court Board of Governors); law clerk to Hon. Catherine B. Kelly, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1968-69; attorney, United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Appellate Section (1969-72); chief legal counsel, Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Department of Health and Human Services, 1972-84; received Saint Elizabeths Hospital Certificate of Appreciation, 1981; Meritorious Achievement Award from Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA), Department of Health and Human Services, 1981, appointed judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia by President Ronald Reagan, October 3, 1984, took oath of office October 21, 1984; served as Deputy Presiding Judge, Criminal Division, January 1996-April 1997; received Achievement Recognition Award, Hispanic Heritage CORO Awards Celebration, 1996; appointed judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President William Jefferson Clinton on March 26, 1997, took oath of office May 12, 1997; appointed by Chief Justice Rehnquist to serve on the Financial Disclosure Committee, 2000-2002; Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, 2002-present.

HENRY H. KENNEDY, Jr., judge; born in Columbia, South Carolina, February 22, 1948; son of Henry and Rachel Kennedy; A.B., Princeton University, 1970; J.D., Harvard University, 1973; admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, 1973; Reavis, Pogue, Neal and Rose, 1972 and 1973; Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1973-76; United States Magistrate for the District of Columbia, April 1976-79; Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, appointed by President Jimmy Carter, December 17, [[Page 846]] 1979; member: American Bar Foundation; District of Columbia Bar; Washington Bar Association; Bar Association of the District of Columbia; American Law Institute; member: The Barristers; Sigma Pi Phi; Epsilon Boule; Trustee, Princeton University; appointed judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, by President William Jefferson Clinton on September 18, 1997.

RICHARD W. ROBERTS, judge; born in New York, NY; son of Beverly N. Roberts and Angeline T. Roberts; graduate of the High School of Music and Art, 1970; A.B. Vassar College, 1974; M.I.A. School for International Training, 1978; J.D., Columbia Law School, 1978; Honors Program trial attorney, Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1978-1982; Associate, Covington and Burling, Washington, D.C., 1982-1986; Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of NY, 1986-1988; Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1988-1993, then Principal Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia, 1993-1995; Chief, Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, 1995-1998; adjunct professor of trial practice, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, 1983-1984; Guest faculty, Harvard Law School, Trial Advocacy Workshop, 1984 to present; admitted to bars of NY (1979) and DC (1983); U.S. District Court for District of Columbia, 1983; U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 1984; U.S. Supreme Court, 1985; U.S. District Court for the Southern District of NY and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1986; past or present member or officer of National Black Prosecutors Association; Washington Bar Association; National Conference of Black Lawyers; Department of Justice Association of Black Attorneys; Department of Justice Association of Hispanic Employees for Advancement and Development; DC Bar, Committee on Professionalism and Public Understanding About the Law; American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section Committees on Continuing Legal Education, and Race and Racism in the Criminal Justice System; ABA Task Force on the Judiciary; DC Circuit Judicial Conference Arrangements Committee; D.C. Judicial Conference Planning Committee; Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court, Washington, DC, master; board of directors, Alumnae and Alumni of Vassar College; African American Alumni of Vassar College; Vassar Club of Washington, DC; Concerned Black Men, Inc., Washington DC Chapter; Sigma Pi Phi, Epsilon Boule; Council on Foreign Relations; DC Coalition Against Drugs and Violence; Murch Elementary School Restructuring Team; nominated as U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia by President Clinton on January 27, 1998 and confirmed by the Senate on June 5, 1998. Took oath of office on July 31, 1998.

ELLEN SEGAL HUVELLE, judge; born in Boston, Massachusetts, June 3, 1948; daughter of Robert M. Segal, Esquire and Sharlee Segal; B.A., Wellesley College, 1970; Masters in City Planning, Yale University, 1972; J.D., magna cum laude, Boston College Law School, 1975 (Order of the Coif; Articles Editor of the law review); law clerk to Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessey, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1975-1976; associate, Williams & Connolly, 1976-1984; partner, Williams & Connolly, 1984-1990; associate judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia 1990-1999; member: American Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar; Women's Bar Association, Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Master in the Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court and member of the Inn's Executive Committee; instructor of Trial Advocacy at the University of Virginia Law School; member of Visiting Faculty at Harvard Law School's Trial Advocacy Workshop; Boston College Law School Board of Overseers; appointed judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Clinton in October 1999, and took oath of office on February 25, 2000.

REGGIE B. WALTON, judge; born in Donora, Pennsylvania, February 8, 1949; son of the late Theodore and Ruth (Garard) Walton; B.A., West Virginia State College, 1971; J.D., American University, Washington College of Law, 1974; admitted to the bars of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1974; United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1975; District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1976; United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1977; Supreme Court of the United States, 1980; United States District Court for the District of Columbia; Staff Attorney, Defender Association of Philadelphia, 1974-1976; Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1976-1980; Chief, Career Criminal Unit, Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1979- 1980; Executive Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, 1980-1981; Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1981-1989; Deputy Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1986-1989; Associate Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President, 1989-1991; Senior White House Advisor for Crime, The White House, 1991; Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 1991-2001; Presiding Judge of the Domestic Violence Unit, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 2000; Presiding Judge of the Family Division, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 2001; [[Page 847]] Instructor: National Judicial College, Reno, Nevada, 1999-present; Harvard University Law School, Trial Advocacy Workshop, 1994-present; National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Georgetown University Law School, 1983-present; Co-author, Pretrial Drug Testing--an Essential component of the National Drug Control Strategy, Brigham Young University Law Journal of Public Law (1991); Distinguished Alumnus Award, American University, Washington College of Law (1991); The William H. Hastie Award, The Judicial Council of the National Bar Association (1993); Commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel by the Governor (1990, 1991); Governor's Proclamation declaring April 9, 1991, Judge Reggie B. Walton Day in the State of Louisiana; The West Virginia State College National Alumni Association James R. Waddy Meritorious Service Award (1990); Secretary's Award, United States Department of Veterans Affairs (1990); Outstanding Alumnus Award, Ringgold High School (1987); Director's Award for Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney (1980); Profiled in book entitled ``Black Judges on Justice: Prospectives From The Bench'' by Linn Washington (1995); appointed district judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia by President George W. Bush, September 24, 2001, and took oath of office October 29, 2001. Judge Walton was also appointed by President Bush in June of 2004 to serve as the Chairperson of the National Prison Rape Reduction Commission, a two-year commission created by the United States Congress that is tasked with the mission of identifying methods to curb the incidents of prison rape.

JOHN D. BATES, judge; born in Elizabeth, NJ, October 11, 1946; son of Richard D. and Sarah (Deacon) Bates; B.A., Wesleyan University, 1968; J.D., University of Maryland School of Law, 1976; U.S. Army (1968-71, 1st Lt., Vietnam Service Medal, Bronze Star); law clerk to Hon. Roszel Thomsen, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 1976-77; 1980-97, Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Columbia (Chief, Civil Division, 1987-97); Director's Award for Superior Performance (1983); Attorney General's Special commendation Award (1986); Deputy Independent Counsel, Whitewater Investigation, 1995-1997; private practice of law, Miller & Chevalier (partner, 1998-2001), Chair of Government Contracts Litigation Department and member of Executive Committee), Steptoe & Johnson (associate, 1977-80); District of Columbia Circuit Advisory Committee for Procedures (1989-93); Civil Justice Reform Committee of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1996-2001); Treasurer, D.C. Bar (1992-93); Publications Committee, D.C. Bar (1991- 97, Chair 1994-97); D.C. Bar Special Committee on Government Lawyers (1990-91); D.C. Bar Task Force on Civility in the Profession (1994-96); D.C. Bar Committee on Examination of Rule 49 (1995-96); Chairman, Litigation Section, Federal Bar Association (1986-89); Board of Directors, Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (1999-2001).

RICHARD J. LEON, judge; 55, born in South Natick, Massachusetts on December 3, 1949; son of Silvano B. Leon and Rita (O'Rorke) Leon; A.B., Holy Cross College, 1971, J.D., cum laude, Suffolk Law School, 1974; LL.M. Harvard Law School, 1981; Law Clerk to Chief Justice McLaughlin and the Associate Justices, Superior Court of Massachusetts, 1974-75; Law Clerk to Hon. Thomas F. Kelleher, Supreme Court of Rhode Island, 1975-76; admitted to bar, Rhode Island, 1975 and District of Columbia, 1991; Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1977-1978; Assistant Professor of Law, St. John's Law School, New York, 1979-1983; Senior Trial Attorney, Criminal Section, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1983-1987; Deputy Chief Minority Counsel, U.S. House Select ``Iran-Contra'' Committee, 1987-1988; Deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney General, Environment Division, 1988-1989; Partner, Baker & Hostetler, Washington, DC, 1989-1999; Commissioner, The White House Fellows Commission, 1990-1992; Chief Minority Counsel, U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee ``October Suprise'' Task Force, 1992-1993; Special Counsel, U.S. House Banking Committee ``Whitewater'' Investigation, 1994; Special Counsel, U.S. House Ethics Reform Task Force, 1997; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1997- present; Partner, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease, Washington, DC, 1999- 2002; Commissioner, Judicial Review Commission on Foreign Asset Control, 2000-2001; Master, Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Court; appointed U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia by President George W. Bush on February 19, 2002; took oath of office on March 20, 2002.

ROSEMARY M. COLLYER, judge; born in White Plains, NY, November 19, 1945; daughter of Thomas C. and Alice Henry Mayers; educated in parochial and public schools in Stamford, Connecticut; B.A., Trinity College, Washington, DC, 1968; J.D., University of Denver College of Law, 1977; practiced with Sherman & Howard, Denver, Colorado, 1977-1981; Chairman, Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission, 1981-1984 by appointment of President Ronald Reagan with Senate confirmation; General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board, 1984-1989 by appointment of President Ronald Reagan with Senate confirmation; private [[Page 848]] practice with Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, DC 1989-2003; member and chairman of the firm's Management Committee; appointed U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia by President George W. Bush and took oath of office on January 2, 2003.

SENIOR JUDGES

WILLIAM BENSON BRYANT, senior judge; born Wetumpka, AL, September 18, 1911; son of Benson and Alberta Bryant; married to Astaire A. Gonzalez (deceased), August 25, 1934; A.B., Howard University, 1932; LL.B., Howard University Law School, 1936; served in U.S. Army, World War II, 1943-47; member of the bar of the District of Columbia and of the Supreme Court of the United States; assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, 1951-54; private practice of law in District of Columbia as partner in firm of Houston, Bryant and Gardner, 1954-65; member: Committee on Admissions and Grievances of U.S. District Court for District of Columbia, 1959-65; District of Columbia Board of Appeals and Review, District of Columbia Special Police Trial Board, American Law Institute, National Lawyers' Club (honorary); appointed judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Circuit by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 11, 1965, and entered upon the duties of that office on August 16, 1965; served as chief judge, 1977-81; took senior judge status on January 31, 1982.

LOUIS FALK OBERDORFER, senior judge; born in Birmingham, AL, February 21, 1919; son of A. Leo and Stella Falk Oberdorfer; A.B., Dartmouth College, 1939; LL.B., Yale Law School, 1946 (editor in chief, Yale Law Journal, 1941); admitted to the bar of Alabama, 1947, District of Columbia, 1949; U.S. Army, rising from private to captain, 1941-45; law clerk to Justice Hugo L. Black, 1946-47; attorney, Paul Weiss, Wharton, Garrison, 1947-51; partner, Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering, and predecessor firms, 1951-61 and 1965-77; Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1961-65; president, District of Columbia Bar, 1977; transition chief executive officer, Legal Services Corp., 1975; co-chairman, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1967-69; member, Advisory Committee on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 1963-84; visiting lecturer, Yale Law School, 1966, 1971; adjunct professor, Georgetown Law Center, 1993-present; appointed judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Jimmy Carter on October 11, 1977, and took oath of office on November 1, 1977; senior status July 31, 1992.

JOHN GARRETT PENN, senior judge; born in Pittsfield, MA, March 19, 1932; son of John and Eugenie Heyliger Penn; A.B., University of Massachusetts (Amherst), 1954; LL.B., Boston University School of Law, 1957; admitted to the bars of Massachusetts, 1957 and District of Columbia, 1970; U.S. Army, first lieutenant, Judge Advocate General Corps, 1958-61; attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, 1961-70; trial attorney, 1961-65, reviewer, 1965-68, assistant chief, 1968-70; National Institute of Public Affairs Fellow, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 1967- 68; Awarded the Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit by the Washington Bar Association, May 1996; appointed judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia by President Richard Nixon, October 1970; appointed judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Jimmy Carter, March 23, 1979, and took oath of office, May 15, 1979; Chief Judge March 1, 1992--July 21, 1997.

Officers of the United States District Court

for the District of Columbia

United States Magistrate Judges: Deborah A. Robinson; Alan Kay; John

M. Facciola.

Clerk of Court.--Nancy Mayer-Whittington.

Administrative Assistant to the Chief Judge.--Sheldon L. Snook.

Bankruptcy Judge.--S. Martin Teel, Jr.

Bankruptcy Clerk of Court.--Denise Curtis.

Chief Probation Officer.--Richard A. Houck, Jr.

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