Joyce Hens Green
| Joyce Green | |
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| Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court | |
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In office May 19, 1990 – May 19, 1995 |
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| Preceded by | James Noland |
| Succeeded by | Royce Lamberth |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
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In office May 11, 1979 – July 1, 1995 |
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| Appointed by | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Howard Corcoran |
| Succeeded by | Henry Kennedy |
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| Born | 1928 (age 88–89) New York City, New York, U.S. |
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University of Maryland, College Park (BA) George Washington University (JD) |
Joyce Hens Green (born 1928) is a Senior United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Green was born in 1928 in New York City. Her father was a psychiatrist and her mother was a homemaker. She had one brother. Her parents encouraged her to go to college and to medical school, but she elected to attend law school.
Judge Green graduated from the University of Maryland, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949. She entered the University of Maryland Law School and transferred to the George Washington University Law School, receiving a Juris Doctorate from that institution in two years, in 1951. She also received an honorary Doctor of Laws from George Washington University in 1994 and has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Towson High School.
Green was married to the attorney Samuel Green (d.1988) and had three children: Michael, June, and James Harry Green. She has several grandchildren.
Judge Green practiced law in the District of Columbia and Virginia until she was appointed Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 1968, where she served until her appointment to the Federal bench in 1979.
On March 6, 1979, President Carter nominated Green to be a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was confirmed by the Senate on May 10, 1979 and received her commission on May 11, 1979. She took senior status on July 1, 1995 and was succeeded by Henry H. Kennedy, Jr.
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