Andrew D. Hurwitz
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | |
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Assumed office June 27, 2012 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Mary Schroeder |
| Vice Chief Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court | |
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In office July 1, 2009 – June 27, 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Rebecca Berch |
| Succeeded by | Scott Bales |
| Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court | |
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In office March 17, 2003 – June 27, 2012 |
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| Appointed by | Janet Napolitano |
| Preceded by | Stanley Feldman |
| Succeeded by | Ann Timmer |
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| Born | October 1947 (age 69) New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Sally Hurwitz |
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Princeton University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Andrew David "Andy" Hurwitz (born October 1947) is a United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Judge Hurwitz graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 1968 with an A.B. in Public and International Affairs. While at Princeton he earned the ignominious distinction of participating in the longest winless streak of the men's soccer team, as part of the 0-7-3 squad in 1966.
He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1972, where he served as a member of the Board of Editors and the Note and Comment Editor of the Yale Law Journal.
After law school, he clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. and for Judge J. Joseph Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
From 1973 to 1974, he clerked for Associate Justice Potter Stewart of the United States Supreme Court.
Hurwitz practiced law in Phoenix for nearly 30 years before becoming a judge. He was a partner at Osborn Maledon from 1995–2003, and an associate and partner at the predecessor firm Meyer Hendricks Victor Osborn & Maledon from 1974 to 1980 and from 1983 to 1995. His practice included commercial litigation, administrative law, and government affairs, but he was best known as one of the most skilled appellate specialists in Arizona.
His most notable case as an appellate attorney came in 2002, when he successfully argued Ring v. Arizona before the United States Supreme Court. Representing Timothy Ring and several other death row inmates, he argued that in murder cases the Sixth Amendment requires juries, rather than judges, to make factual determinations that aggravating circumstances exist that qualify defendants for the death penalty. The Supreme Court agreed in a 7-2 decision that dramatically altered capital sentencing in Arizona and a number of other states.
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