Susan Graber | |
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | |
Assumed office April 1, 1998 |
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Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Edward Leavy |
Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court | |
In office May 2, 1990 – April 1, 1998 |
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Appointed by | Neil Goldschmidt |
Preceded by | Robert Jones |
Succeeded by | William Riggs |
Personal details | |
Born |
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S. |
July 5, 1949
Education |
Wellesley College (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Susan Pia Graber (born July 5, 1949) is an American attorney and jurist. She is a circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A native of Oklahoma, she was the 90th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, and served on the Oregon Court of Appeals.
Susan Graber was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on July 5, 1949. After high school Graber attended Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She graduated from Wellesley with a Bachelor of Arts in 1969, Phi Beta Kappa. Graber went to law school at Yale where she earned her Juris Doctor in 1972. She attended Yale with Hillary Rodham (now Clinton) and Bill Clinton.
Upon graduation Graber became an assistant attorney general for the New Mexico Bureau of Revenue, where she continued until 1974. That year she entered private law practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico, until 1975. In 1975 she moved to Ohio where she returned to private practice, this time in Cincinnati, until 1978. Then in 1978 Graber moved to Portland, Oregon, where she became an associate at Stoel Rives Boley Jones and Grey (now Stoel Rives LLP). In 1981 she became a partner. In 1986, the Northwest Women’s Law Center gave her their Founder’s Award to recognize her pro bono service.