Mary.Schroeder

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Judge Mary Schroeder

Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from December 2000 through November, 2007. Judge Schroeder has served on that court since 1979. She previously served on the Arizona Court of Appeals and practiced law in Phoenix. She is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Chicago Law School. After graduation she was a trial lawyer in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She has published articles and lectures in various law reviews and is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute. She is a recipient of the Arizona State Bar Association’s James A. Walsh Outstanding Jurist Award, the American Bar Association’s Margaret Brent Award, and the Joan Dempsey Klein NAWJ Honoree of the Year Award. In 2006 Swarthmore College awarded her an Honorary Doctor of Law decree.


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