Robert L. Wilkins
| Robert Wilkins | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
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Assumed office January 15, 2014 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | David Sentelle |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
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In office December 27, 2010 – January 15, 2014 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | James Robertson |
| Succeeded by | Randolph Moss |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Robert Leon Wilkins 1963 (age 53–54) Muncie, Indiana, U.S. |
| Education |
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (BS) Harvard University (JD) |
Robert Leon Wilkins (born 1963) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Wilkins was born in 1963 in Muncie, Indiana, where he was raised by a single mother. He studied chemical engineering at Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1986. Wilkins then earned his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1989.
After completing law school, Wilkins served as a law clerk for Judge Earl B. Gilliam of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.
Wilkins worked at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia from 1990 to 2002, serving as chief of special litigation from 1996 to 2000. Starting in 2002, Wilkins was a partner at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Venable LLP.
Wilkins was a member of the presidential commission that advised President George W. Bush on the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture. He wrote about this experience, and the long history of the project, in Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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