Paul J. Watford
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | |
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Assumed office May 22, 2012 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Pamela Rymer |
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| Born |
Paul Jeffrey Watford August 25, 1967 Garden Grove, California, U.S. |
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University of California, Berkeley (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (JD) |
Paul Jeffrey Watford (born August 25, 1967) is a United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In February 2016, The New York Times identified Watford as a potential Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.
Watford was born and raised in Orange County, California. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989, from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1994 he received a Juris Doctor from the UCLA School of Law, where he graduated Order of the Coif. Watford also served as an editor of the UCLA Law Review.
In 1994 he served as a law clerk to Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit, and from 1995 to 1996 he clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1996 he joined the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson. In 1997 Watford became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Major Frauds Section of the Criminal Division of the Central District of California, where he prosecuted a wide range of federal criminal cases, including white-collar criminal cases. In 2000 he joined the Los Angeles office of the Chicago-based law firm Sidley Austin, but he returned to Munger in 2001, where he became partner in 2003. At Munger, where he worked until his confirmation, he focused on appellate litigation, appearing regularly in state and federal courts to argue his cases. He has authored or edited nearly twenty briefs prepared for the Supreme Court.
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