Pamela Ann Harris

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American judge (born 1962)

Not to be confused with Kamala Harris .

Pamela Ann Harris (born September 23, 1962) is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit . Prior to joining the federal bench, she was an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School , and visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and executive director of its Supreme Court Institute.

Early life and education

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Harris graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda , Maryland . She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in 1985 from Yale College . She received a Juris Doctor in 1990 from Yale Law School . She served as a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , from 1990 to 1991. She worked as an associate at the law firm of Shea & Gardner (now Goodwin Procter LLP ) in Washington, D.C. from 1991 to 1992. She served as a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court , from 1992 to 1993.

Career

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Harris served as an attorney-advisor in the United States Department of Justice 's Office of Legal Counsel , from 1993 to 1996. From 1996 to 1999, she was an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School , earning the Harvey Levin Memorial Teaching Award. She previously served as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Policy at the United States Department of Justice . She joined O'Melveny & Myers LLP as counsel in 1999, where she specialized in appellate and Supreme Court litigation, becoming partner in 2005. Beginning in 2007, concurrently with her private practice, she co-directed Harvard Law School 's Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Clinic and was a visiting professor at Georgetown University Law Center . In 2009, she was named the Executive Director of the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown, serving in that position until 2010, when she joined the Office of Legal Policy . She returned to Georgetown in 2012 and served in that capacity until her appointment as a federal judge in 2014.

Federal judicial service

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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing

On May 8, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Harris to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, to the seat vacated by Judge Andre M. Davis , who assumed senior status on February 28, 2014. She received a hearing on her nomination on Tuesday, June 24, 2014. On July 17, 2014, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 10–8 vote. On July 22, 2014, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on Harris's nomination. On July 24, 2014, the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 54–41 vote. On July 28, 2014, her nomination was confirmed by a 50–43 vote. She received her judicial commission the next day.

In 2024, Judge Harris joined Judge Toby Heytens in a 2-1 decision on West Virginia v. B.P.J., where she held that "West Virginia cannot enforce its anti-transgender sports ban against a 13-year-old girl."

Personal life

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Harris is married to Austin Schlick, Executive Director of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

and former Federal Communications Commission general counsel.

See also

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• List of Jewish American jurists

• List of law clerks for the fourth seat of the Supreme Court of the United States

References

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 ["President Obama Nominates Pamela Harris to Serve on the United States Court of Appeals"](https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/08/president-obama-nominates-pamela-harris-serve-united-states-court-appeal)
. _[whitehouse.gov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse.gov "Whitehouse.gov")
_. May 8, 2014 – via [National Archives](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NARA "NARA")
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1. ↑ "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate" . _whitehouse.gov _. May 8, 2014 – via National Archives .
2. ↑ ["United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary"](http://www.judiciar

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