Amul Roger Thapar | |
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Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky | |
Assumed office January 4, 2008 |
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Nominated by | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Joseph Martin Hood |
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky | |
In office 2006–2007 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Amul Roger Thapar April 29, 1969 Detroit, Michigan |
Education |
Boston College B.S. UC Berkeley School of Law J.D. |
Amul Roger Thapar (born April 29, 1969) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. President Donald Trump has nominated him to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Thapar received a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College in 1991 and a Juris Doctor from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1994. He was a law clerk to S. Arthur Spiegel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio from 1994 to 1996, and for Nathaniel R. Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1996 to 1997. He was an adjunct professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Law from 1995 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2006.
He was an attorney in the corporate law firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., from 1997 to 1999. He was a trial advocacy instructor in the Georgetown University Law Center from 1999 to 2000. He was an Assistant United States Attorney of the U.S. Attorney's Office, Washington, DC from 1999 to 2000. He was general counsel to Equalfooting.com from 2000 to 2001. He returned to private practice at the Squire, Sanders & Dempsey firm in Cincinnati, Ohio from 2001 to 2002.