Michael Wise Mosman | |
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Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon | |
Assumed office February 1, 2016 |
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Preceded by | Ann Aiken |
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon | |
Assumed office September 26, 2003 |
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Appointed by | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Robert E. Jones |
United States Attorney for the District of Oregon | |
In office 2001–2003 |
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Appointed by | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Kristine Olson Rogers |
Succeeded by | Karin Immergut |
Personal details | |
Born |
Michael Wise Mosman December 23, 1956 Eugene, Oregon |
Education |
Ricks College (A.B.) Utah State University (B.S.) J. Reuben Clark Law School (J.D.) |
Michael Wise Mosman (born December 23, 1956) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, and is simultaneously serving a 2013-2020 term on the FISA Court. The Oregon native previously served as the United States Attorney for the same district.
Michael Mosman was born in the Willamette Valley of Oregon in 1956 in the city of Eugene. He grew up in Lewiston, Idaho, the son of an attorney and judge with an older sister and three younger brothers. He attended Ricks College in Idaho, which is now Brigham Young University–Idaho. He graduated with a Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1979 before attending Utah State University in Logan, Utah. At Utah State he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1981, and was the valedictorian of his class. Mosman then went on to law school at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School. He graduated there in 1984 with a Juris Doctor. At BYU he was the editor of the law review, and graduated magna cum laude.
In 1984, Mosman began clerking for Malcolm Richard Wilkey, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The following year he entered private legal practice for part of 1985. Mosman then was a judicial clerk for United States Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell. While clerking for Powell, he was involved in the justice's voting to uphold Georgia's sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick. After leaving Powell's employ, Mosman entered private practice in Portland, Oregon, in 1986.