James E. Boasberg
| James Emanuel Boasberg | |
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| Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court | |
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Assumed office May 18, 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Reggie Walton |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
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Assumed office March 17, 2011 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Thomas F. Hogan |
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| Born |
James Emanuel Boasberg February 20, 1963 San Francisco, California |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Manson |
| Education |
Yale University B.A. Yale Law School J.D. University of Oxford M.St. |
James Emanuel "Jeb" Boasberg (born February 20, 1963) is a United States District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, also serving as a Judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; and former associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
Boasberg was born in San Francisco, California in 1963, to Sarah Margaret (Szold) and Emanuel Boasberg III. The family moved to Washington, D.C. when Boasberg's father accepted a position in Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, a Great Society agency responsible for implementing and administering many of Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty programs.
Boasberg received an Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1985, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and a Master of Studies the following year from Oxford University. He then earned his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1990. After completing law school, Boasberg served as a law clerk for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
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