Barbara Milano Keenan
| Barbara Milano Keenan | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit | |
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Assumed office March 9, 2010 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Hiram Emory Widener Jr. |
| Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court | |
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In office July 2, 1991 – March 9, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Charles S. Russell |
| Succeeded by | Bill Mims |
| Judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals | |
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In office January 1, 1985 – July 1, 1991 |
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| Born | 1950 (age 66–67) Vienna, Austria |
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Cornell University B.A. George Washington University Law School J.D. University of Virginia School of Law LL.M. |
Barbara Milano Keenan (born 1950) is a United States Circuit Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a former justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Keenan was born in Vienna, Austria, where her father, a highly decorated World War II veteran, was serving as chief of intelligence operations after the war. She was raised in Northern Virginia. Keenan received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University in 1971 and her Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School in 1974. She also earned a Master of Laws degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1992.
From 1974 to 1976, Keenan was an assistant commonwealth's attorney for Fairfax County, Virginia, before entering private practice, first as a solo practitioner and then as partner in the firm Keenan, Ardis and Roehrenbeck. In 1980, she was made a judge of the General District Court of Fairfax County, and two years later became the first woman to be elected to a Circuit Court judgeship by the Virginia General Assembly. In 1985, she was elected as one of the first ten judges of the newly created Court of Appeals of Virginia, making her the first woman to serve as a state appellate court judge in Virginia. Keenan holds the distinction of being the first woman to have served on all levels of the Virginia court system. In 2011, she wrote the foreword to the first volume of Jurist Prudent, the collected opinions of her former Supreme Court of Virginia colleague Sr. Justice Lawrence L. Koontz, Jr.
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