Beryl A. Howell
| Beryl Alaine Howell | |
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| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
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Assumed office March 16, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Richard W. Roberts |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
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Assumed office December 27, 2010 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Paul L. Friedman |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1956 (age 60–61) Fort Benning, Georgia |
| Education |
Bryn Mawr College B.A. Columbia Law School J.D. |
Beryl Alaine Howell (born 1956) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Howell graduated from Bryn Mawr College with her Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors in Philosophy in 1978 and from Columbia University School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1983.
Following law school graduation, Howell clerked for Judge Dickinson Richards Debevoise in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey from 1983 to 1984. From 1985 to 1987, she was in private practice as an associate at the New York City law firm of Schulte Roth & Zabel.
From 1987 to 1993, Howell was an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, where she became Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Section.
From 1993 to 2003, Howell served on the staff of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary as a senior advisor to chairman Patrick Leahy, including as the committee’s general counsel starting in 1997.
While working for Senator Leahy, Howell helped craft the E-FOIA amendments, which expanded electronic access to government records. She also helped Sen. Leahy fend off proposals to impose new limits on the FOIA. In 2001, she was honored by the Coalition to Support and Expand the Freedom of Information Act, and in 2004, her FOIA work was honored by the Society of Professional Journalists.
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