Paul Cassell

Paul George Cassell


Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah
In office May 15, 2002 – November 5, 2007
Appointed by	George W. Bush
Preceded by	David Sam
Succeeded by	Clark Waddoups

Personal details
Born	Paul George Cassell 1959 (age 57–58) Orange, California
Education	Stanford University (B.A.) Stanford Law School (J.D.)

Paul George Cassell (born 1959) is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Utah, who is a professor at the law school of the University of Utah. He is best known as an expert in, and proponent of, victims' rights.

Born in Orange, California in 1959, Cassell received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1979. He later received a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 1984 and served as President of the Stanford Law Review. He was also a law clerk for Antonin Scalia, then a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, from 1984 to 1985. He was a law clerk for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger from 1985 to 1986. He was then an associate deputy attorney general in the United States Department of Justice from 1986 to 1988, and an assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from 1988 to 1991. He was a professor of law at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah from 1992 to 2002 and since 2007.

On September 4, 2001, Cassell was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Utah vacated by David Sam. Cassell was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 13, 2002, and received his commission on May 15, 2002, and served in that capacity until his resignation on November 5, 2007. Cassell then returned to teaching at the S.J. Quinney College of Law.