Thomas B. Griffith
| Thomas B. Griffith | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
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Assumed office June 29, 2005 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Patricia Wald |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Thomas Beall Griffith July 5, 1954 Yokohama, Japan |
| Education |
Brigham Young University B.A. University of Virginia School of Law J.D. |
Thomas Beall Griffith (born July 5, 1954) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Before his appointment to the bench he was Senate Legal Counsel, the chief legal officer of the United States Senate. In November 2011, Griffith was included on The New Republic's list of Washington's most powerful, but least famous, people.
Griffith graduated summa cum laude from Brigham Young University (BYU) with a bachelor's degree in 1978 and served on the Virginia Law Review at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he received a Juris Doctor in 1985. He worked in private legal practice in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1985 to 1989, and then in Washington, D.C., until 1995. Griffith left private practice in 1995 to serve as Senate Legal Counsel, the chief legal officer of the United States Senate. In that position, he gave nonpartisan legal advice to both parties during President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial. After briefly returning to private practice from 1999 to 2000, Griffith became General Counsel of BYU.
President George W. Bush first nominated Griffith to the D.C. Circuit on May 10, 2004, to fill a seat vacated by retired Judge Patricia M. Wald. His nomination replaced that of Miguel Estrada, who withdrew his nomination after Democrats filibustered him for over two years.
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