Which law school has the most alumni who have served on the Federal Circuit - present and past?
It’s a tie! Georgetown University Law Center and Columbia Law School are tied at four for the most graduates who went on to become Federal Circuit judges - present and past. As for current members of the court, Georgetown University Law Center has the most alumni (3) currently on the court, including senior judges. However, when excluding senior judges and when only focusing on active judges on the court, Georgetown University Law Center and New York University School of Law are tied at two for most alumni active on the court. Below is a list of Federal Circuit judges and their law school alma maters.
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JUDGES |
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Current Circuit Judges |
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| Sharon Prost | American University Washington College of Law, 1979 |
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Pauline Newman |
New York University School of Law, 1958 |
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Alan David Lourie |
Temple University School of Law, 1970 |
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Timothy B. Dyk |
Harvard Law School, 1961 |
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Kimberly Ann Moore |
Georgetown University Law Center, 1994 |
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Kathleen M. O’Malley |
Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 1982 |
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Jimmie V. Reyna |
University of New Mexico Law, 1978 |
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Evan Wallach |
University of California, Berkeley Law, 1976 |
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Richard G. Taranto |
Yale Law School, 1981 |
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Raymond T. Chen |
New York University School of Law, 1994 |
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Todd M. Hughes |
Duke University School of Law, 1992 |
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Kara Fernandez Stoll |
Georgetown University Law Center, 1997 |
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Current Senior Circuit Judges |
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Haldane Robert Mayer |
William and Mary School of Law, 1971 |
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S. Jay Plager |
University of Florida College of Law, 1958 |
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Raymond Charles Clevenger III |
Yale Law School, 1966 |
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Alvin Anthony Schall |
Tulane Law School, 1969 |
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William Curtis Bryson |
University of Texas School of Law, 1973 |
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Richard Linn |
Georgetown University Law School, 1969 |
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Former Judges |
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Don Nelson Laramore |
Indiana University McKinney School of Law, 1931 |
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Giles Rich |
Columbia Law School, 1929 |
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James Lindsay Almond, Jr. |
University of Virginia School of Law, 1923 |
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Oscar Hirsh Davis |
Columbia Law School, 1937 |
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Arnold Wilson Cowen |
University of Texas School of Law, 1928 |
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Phillip Nichols, Jr. |
Harvard Law School, 1932 |
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Byron George Skelton |
University of Texas School of Law, 1931 |
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Phillip Benjamin Baldwin |
South Texas College of Law |
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Howard Thomas Markey |
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 1949 |
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Marion Tinsley Bennett |
Washington University School of Law, 1938 |
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Shiro Kashiwa |
University of Michigan Law School, 1936 |
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Jack Richard Miller |
Columbia Law School, 1946 |
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Daniel Mortimer Friedman |
Columbia Law School, 1940 |
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Edward Samuel Smith |
University of Virginia School of Law, 1947 |
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Helen W. Nies |
University of Michigan Law School, 1948 |
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Jean Galloway Bissell |
University of South Carolina School of Law, 1958 |
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Glenn Leroy Archer, Jr. |
George Washington University Law School, 1954 |
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Paul Redmond Michel |
University of Virginia School of Law, 1966 |
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Randall Ray Rader |
George Washington University Law School, 1978 |
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