Timothy B. Dyk
| Timothy Belcher Dyk | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | |
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Assumed office May 25, 2000 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Glenn Leroy Archer, Jr. |
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| Born |
Timothy Belcher Dyk February 14, 1937 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Education |
Harvard College A.B. Harvard Law School J.D. |
Timothy Belcher Dyk (born February 14, 1937) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
The son of noted women's suffragist and psychologist Ruth Belcher Dyk, and Walter Dyk who studied and wrote about the Navajo Indians. Dyk was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He earned his Artium Baccalaureus degree cum laude from Harvard College in 1958, and earned his Juris Doctor magna cum laude in 1961 from the Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the law review. Dyk clerked for retired United States Supreme Court Justices Stanley Forman Reed and Harold Hitz Burton in 1961 and 1962, and clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren from 1962 to 1963. From 1963 until 1964, Dyk completed a one-year assignment with the United States Department of Justice as Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division.
Dyk worked in private practice as an attorney in Washington, D.C. from 1964 until 2000, first with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and later with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, where he was chair of the Issues and Appeals practice. He was a lecturer at the Georgetown University Law Center in 1983, 1986, and 1989, a visiting professor and lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law from 1984 to 1985 and from 1987 to 1988, and was also a lecturer at Yale Law School in 1986, 1987, and 1989. Immediately prior to being nominated to the Federal Circuit in 1998, Dyk was a partner at Jones Day, specializing in First Amendment law. One case saw Dyk arguing for the release to the public of the cockpit recordings of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. In an August 4, 1997 article in the Washington Post, Dyk was identified as one of "only a handful of repeat performers considered heavyweights" in representing clients before the United States Supreme Court. Dyk also made the news in the early and mid-1990s for his desire to open federal courtrooms to news media organizations. After the Judicial Conference of the United States voted on September 20, 1994 to keep cameras out of federal courtrooms by ending a pilot program that had allowed cameras at civil trials and appeals in eight courts, Dyk told the Washington Post that "they appear to have slammed the door on a very important experiment, which, if it had been expanded, would have benefited people throughout the country."
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