Judith Ann Wilson Rogers | |
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
Assumed office March 11, 1994 |
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Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Clarence Thomas |
Chief Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals | |
In office 1988–1994 |
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Preceded by | William C. Pryor |
Succeeded by | Annice M. Wagner |
Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals | |
In office 1983 – 1994 |
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Appointed by | Ronald Reagan |
Preceded by | Catherine B. Kelly |
Succeeded by | Vanessa Ruiz |
Personal details | |
Born |
New York City, New York |
July 27, 1939
Education |
Radcliffe College (A.B.) Harvard Law School (LL.B.) University of Virginia School of Law (LL.M.) |
Judith Ann Wilson Rogers (born July 27, 1939) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Born in New York City, New York, Rogers received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Radcliffe College of Harvard University in 1961, a Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1964 and a Master of Laws from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1988. After graduating from law school, she was a law clerk at the Juvenile Court of the District of Columbia from 1964 to 1965. She then worked as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1965 to 1968, a staff attorney at San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation from 1968 to 1969, and a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division from 1969 to 1971. From 1971 to 1972, she was general counsel for the Congressional Commission on the Organization of the District Government, where she helped develop home rule legislation for the District of Columbia. She worked on legislative affairs in the District government from 1972 to 1979, a period in which the District held its first elections for city council and mayor under the new District of Columbia Home Rule Act. In 1979, Rogers became the first female corporation counsel for the District of Columbia.