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Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 2013-present

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1999-2013

Fellow, Brookings Institution, 1981-1999

Professor, Georgetown University, 1992-1999

President, Governance Institute, 1986-1999

Confirmed by the United States Senate, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, July 14, 1999

Nominated by President William J. Clinton, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, March 8, 1999

Acting Program Director, Brookings Institution, 1998

Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Public Policy Program, 1987-1992

Visiting Professor, University of California-Los Angeles, Washington District of Columbia Program, 1990-1992

Chair in Law and Politics, University of Oregon, 1992

Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1984-1989

Special Assistant to Director, Federal Judicial Center, 1986-1988

Law Clerk, Honorable Hugh H. Bownes, United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, 1980-1981

Chair, Judicial Conference of the United States, 2013-present

Member, Executive Committee, United States Judicial Conference

Chair, Judicial Branch Committee, United States Judicial Conference

Chair, Supreme Court Fellows Commission

Awards:

American Political Science Association's Charles E. Merriam Award. He is also the recipient of: the Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence of the Federal Bar Council; the Chesterfield Smith Award of the Pro Bono Institute; the Stanley H. Fuld Award of the New York State Bar Association; the Michael Maggio Memorial Pro Bono Award of the American Immigration Lawyers Association; the Public Interest Scholarship Organization Lifetime Achievement Award; and the Green Bag's "Exemplary Legal Writing" honoree recognition

Publications:

Regulatory Bureaucracy: The Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Policy; Institutional Disability; Courts and Congress; editor and project director of The Law Firm and the Public Good; co-editor of Managing Appeals in Federal Court; editor and contributing author of Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The Intellectual in Public Life; and editor and contributing author of Judges and Legislators.