Janice Rogers Brown
| Janice Rogers Brown | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
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Assumed office June 10, 2005 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Stephen Williams |
| Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court | |
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In office May 2, 1996 – June 10, 2005 |
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| Appointed by | Pete Wilson |
| Preceded by | Ronald George |
| Succeeded by | Carol Corrigan |
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May 11, 1949 Greenville, Alabama, U.S. |
| Education |
California State University, Sacramento (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (JD) University of Virginia (LLM) |
Janice Rogers Brown (born May 11, 1949) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court from May 2, 1996, until her appointment to the D.C. Circuit.
President George W. Bush nominated her to her current position in 2003. However, her nomination was stalled in the U.S. Senate for almost two years because of Democratic opposition. She began serving as a Federal Appellate Court Judge on June 8, 2005.
Born in Greenville, Alabama, Brown is an Alabama sharecropper's daughter who attended majority African American schools as a child. Her family refused to enter places of business that segregated blacks. She earned her B.A. from California State University, Sacramento in 1974 and her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the UCLA School of Law in 1977. In addition, she received an LL.M. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2004.
She had one child Nathan A. Brown, adopted by her first husband, Allen E. Brown Sr., who died of cancer in 1988. She remarried in 1991 to jazz electric bassist Dewey Parker.
Brown has said that when she was young, she was so liberal in her politics that she was almost Maoist, although she is now conservative.
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