Amul Thapar

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Amul Roger Thapar (born April 29, 1969) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit . He was appointed in 2017 by President Donald Trump , having previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2008 to 2017 and as the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2006 to 2008. Thapar was Trump's first Court of Appeals appointment and second judicial appointment after Justice Neil Gorsuch . Thapar has been discussed as a candidate for the Supreme Court of the United States .

Contents

• 1 Early life and education

• 2 Career

  • 2.1 Private practice

  • 2.2 United States attorney

• 3 Federal judicial service

  • 3.1 Service as district court judge

    • 3.1.1 Notable cases as a district court judge

  • 3.2 Court of appeals service

  • 3.3 Notable cases as a circuit court judge

• 4 Consideration for the Supreme Court

• 5 Personal life

• 6 Bibliography

• 7 See also

• 8 References

• 9 External links

Early life and education

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Thapar was born on April 29, 1969, in Troy, Michigan , to a Punjabi family that had immigrated to the United States from India . He grew up in Toledo, Ohio , where his father, Raj Thapar, owns a heating and air-conditioning supply business. Thapar worked for his father's business driving the truck. His mother, Veena Bhalla, owned a restaurant. She sold her successful business after the September 11 attacks and chose to serve as a civilian clinical social worker assigned to assist veterans.

After graduating from high school in 1987, Thapar attended Boston College , graduating in 1991 with a Bachelor of Science degree. He attended Ohio State University 's Moritz College of Law for one year before transferring to the UC Berkeley School of Law , from which he graduated in 1994 with a Juris Doctor .

Career

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Private practice

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After law school, Thapar was a law clerk to Judge S. Arthur Spiegel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio from 1994 to 1996 and to Sixth Circuit judge Nathaniel R. Jones from 1996 to 1997. He then entered private practice at the law firm Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C. , from 1997 to 1999, where he volunteered to represent the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty pro bono. In addition to being a practicing trial attorney, Thapar was also a trial advocacy instructor at the Georgetown University Law Center from 1999 to 2000. He was an assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2000. He was general counsel to Equalfooting.com from 2000 to 2001. He returned to private practice at the Squire, Sanders & Dempsey firm in Cincinnati, Ohio from 2001 to 2002, before entering a life of public service. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law from 1995 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2006.

United States attorney

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Thapar returned to the United States Attorney's Office as an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of Ohio from 2002 to 2006. He was then nominated and confirmed to the position of United States attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky , where he served from 2006 to 2007.

While an Assistant United States Attorney, he was appointed to the Attorney General's Advisory Committee (AGAC) and chaired the AGAC's Controlled Substances and Asset Forfeiture subcommittee. He also served on its Terrorism and National Security subcommittee, Violent Crime subcommittee, and Child Exploitation working group.

Thapar also led the Southern Ohio Mortgage Fraud Task Force, which successfully prosecuted approximately 40 perpetrators of mortgage fraud . He

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