Thomas B. Griffith
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Thomas Beall Griffith (born July 5, 1954) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2020. Currently, he is a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School,[1] a fellow at the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University (BYU),[2] and special counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth.[3]
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Thomas B. Griffith | |
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Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
In office June 29, 2005 ā September 1, 2020 | |
Appointed by | George W. Bush |
Preceded by | Patricia Wald |
Succeeded by | Justin R. Walker |
Personal details | |
Born | (1954-07-05) July 5, 1954 (age 69) Yokohama, Japan |
Education | Brigham Young University (BA) University of Virginia (JD) |
Before being appointed to the D.C. Circuit, Griffith was BYU's general counsel (2000-2005); Senate Legal Counsel, the non-partisan chief legal officer of the United States Senate (1995-1999); and a partner at Wiley Rein. He is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and, having been long active in rule-of-law programs in former communist nations, Griffith is also a member of the international advisory board of the CEELI Institute in Prague. He formerly served as a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (2021).[4]