Jerome Holmes
| Jerome A. Holmes | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit | |
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Assumed office August 9, 2006 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Stephanie Kulp Seymour |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Jerome A. Holmes November 18, 1961 Washington, D.C. |
| Education |
Wake Forest University B.A Georgetown University Law Center J.D. Harvard University M.P.A. |
Jerome A. Holmes (born November 18, 1961 in Washington, D.C.) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He is the first African American to serve on the Tenth Circuit.
Holmes graduated from Wake Forest University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He then attended the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was editor of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. He received his Juris Doctor in 1988. In 2000, Holmes received a Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Holmes began his legal career as a law clerk for Judge Wayne E. Alley of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma in 1988. Holmes then clerked for another federal judge, William Judson Holloway, Jr., on the Tenth Circuit from 1990 to 1991. Next, he entered private practice with the firm of Steptoe & Johnson in Washington, D.C., in 1991, where he worked as an associate for three years before he returned to Oklahoma as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Holmes served in that capacity from 1994 to 2005. Holmes re-entered private practice in 2005 as a Director of the Oklahoma firm Crowe & Dunlevy, where his practice was focused on white collar criminal defense, complex civil litigation, and corporate law.
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