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Justin Reed Walker

Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit · 2019–2020

Justin Reed Walker, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Senate voted 50–41 on the nomination on Oct 24, 2019 (Nomination Confirmed).

Senate votes
2

Senate confirmation votes

  • United States District Judge for the Western District of Kentucky
    116th Congress · Nomination Confirmed
    50–41 · Oct 24, 2019
  • United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit
    116th Congress · Nomination Confirmed
    51–42 · Jun 18, 2020

Education

  • Duke UniversityB.A., 2004
  • Harvard Law SchoolJ.D., 2009

Career

Private practice, Washington, D.C., 2009-2010, 2012-2013; Law clerk, Hon. Brett M. Kavanaugh, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 2010-2011; Law clerk, Hon. Anthony M. Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States, 2011-2012; Private practice, Louisville, Kentucky, 2013-2019; University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law, 2015-2019; assistant professor of law, 2015-2019; associate professor of law, 2019

Biography

Justin Reed Walker (born 1982) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2020. He was a U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky from 2019 to 2020 and a professor of law at the University of Louisville from 2015 to 2019.

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