Lee H. Rosenthal
| Lee Hyman Rosenthal | |
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| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas | |
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Assumed office November 13, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Ricardo Hinojosa |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas | |
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Assumed office May 13, 1992 |
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| Appointed by | George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Seat established by 104 Stat. 5089 |
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| Born | 1952 (age 64–65) Richmond, Indiana |
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University of Chicago (B.A.) University of Chicago Law School (J.D.) |
Lee Hyman Rosenthal (born 1952 in Richmond, Indiana) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Rosenthal received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 1974 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School in 1977, where she was an editor of the Law Review.
After graduating from law school, Rosenthal completed a one-year clerkship with Chief Judge John Robert Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Rosenthal practiced with the Houston law firm Baker Botts from 1978 to 1992, becoming a partner in 1985. She was nominated to the district court by President George H. W. Bush on March 20, 1992, was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 12, 1992, and received her commission on May 13, 1992. She became Chief Judge on November 13, 2016.
Rosenthal chaired the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, to which she was appointed in 2007 by Chief Justice John Roberts The committee supervises the rule-making process in the federal courts and oversees and coordinates the work of the Advisory Committees on the Federal Rules of Evidence and of Civil, Criminal, Bankruptcy and Appellate Procedure.
Prior to 2007, Rosenthal was a member, then chair, of the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist appointed her to that committee in 1996, and as chair in 2003. Under her tenure, the discovery rules were amended to address the impact of changes in information technology in 2006. In 2007, the entire set of civil rules was edited to be clearer and simpler without changing substantive meaning. The work clarifying and simplifying the rules used in the trial courts won the committee the 2007 “Reform in Law” Award from the Burton Awards for Legal Achievement, an award issued with the Library of Congress and the Law Library of Congress.
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