Patricia Ann Millett
| Patricia Millett | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
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Assumed office December 10, 2013 |
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| Nominated by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | John Roberts |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 1963 (age 53) Dexter, Maine, U.S. |
| Education |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
Patricia Ann Millett (US 
i//, born September 1963) is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She formerly headed the Supreme Court practice at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Millett also was a longtime former assistant to the United States Solicitor General and served as an occasional blogger for SCOTUSblog. At the time of her confirmation to the D.C. Circuit, she had argued 32 cases before the United States Supreme Court. In February 2016 The New York Times identified her as a potential nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.
Millett's 2013 nomination to the D.C. Circuit, along with the nominations of Robert L. Wilkins and Nina Pillard, ultimately became central to the debate over the use of the filibuster in the United States Senate, leading to the use of the nuclear option to bring it to the floor for a vote.
Millett was born in 1963 in Dexter, Maine to a family with Mainer roots stretching to the Revolutionary War. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science summa cum laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. She then earned a J.D. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1988.
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