Patricia Ann Millett

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American judge (born 1963)

Patricia Ann Millett (/mɪˈlɛt/ ⓘ ; born September 1963) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit . She formerly headed the Supreme Court practice at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld . Millett also was a longtime former assistant to the United States Solicitor General and occasional writer for SCOTUSblog . At the time of her confirmation to the D.C. Circuit, she had argued 32 cases before the United States Supreme Court —once the record for a female lawyer.

In February 2016, _The New York Times _ identified her as a potential nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia .

Millett's 2013 nomination to the D.C. Circuit, along with the nominations of Robert L. Wilkins and Nina Pillard , ultimately became central to the debate over the use of the filibuster in the United States Senate, leading to the use of the so-called "nuclear option " to bring it to the Senate floor for a vote.

Early life and education

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Millett was born in 1963 in Dexter, Maine , and grew up in Marine, Illinois . Her father was historian and author Richard L. Millett . She graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts , _summa cum laude _, in political science , and then from Harvard Law School in 1988 with a Juris Doctor , magna cum laude.

Career

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From 1988 to 1990, Millett was in private practice in the litigation department of the Washington, D.C. law firm Miller & Chevalier . She then was a law clerk for Judge Thomas Tang of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1990 to 1992. From 1992 to 1996, Millett worked for the United States Department of Justice Civil Division 's appellate staff, briefing and arguing more than 20 cases before federal appeals courts and occasionally state appeals courts.

In August 1996, Millett became an assistant to the United States Solicitor General , a position she held until September 2007. During that time, Millett argued 25 cases before the United States Supreme Court and briefed more than 50 others. She authored the Solicitor General's brief in pathbreaking cases including _Tennessee v. Lane _ (successfully defending the constitutionality of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ) and _Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs _ (successfully defending the constitutionality of the Family and Medical Leave Act ).

In 2007, Millett joined the Washington, D.C. law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld , co-chairing the firm's Supreme Court practice along with Tom Goldstein . At Akin Gump, her victories included _Samantar v. Yousuf _, in which she represented victims of torture who argued that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act did not grant immunity to former foreign government officials.

In October 2007, Millett began blogging at SCOTUSblog .

Federal judicial service

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Consideration for Fourth Circuit

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In February 2009, Legal Times reported that Millett was one of five Virginia residents recommended by the voluntary Virginia Bar Association lawyer organization to serve as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit , along with Virginia state senator John S. Edwards , Virginia Supreme Court Justice Barbara Milano Keenan , then University of Virginia School of Law professor James Ryan and former Virginia Supreme Court Justice John Thomas . At that time, the Fourth Circuit had four judicial vacancies, one of which was a seat generally thought to belong to Virginia, and all five candidates were among a larger group of individuals who had proa

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In April 2018, Millett dissented when Judge Robert L. Wilkins ’s majority opinion found that a Federal Trade Commission staff letter rejecting an earlier staff letter and concluding that use of soundboard technology violates the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act was not itself subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act .

In November 2021, Millett dissented in a case that struck down the EPA 's fuel efficiency standards for trailers on trucks.

In December 2021, Millett wrote the majority opinion in a case brought by former president Donald Trump to block the release of presidential records that the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol .

Personal life

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Millett and her husband, Robert King, reside in Alexandria , Virginia . She is active in Aldersgate United Methodist Church

and has a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do , according to her answers to a questionnaire for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Her husband, King, is a Navy veteran who deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom and the war in Afghanistan .

See also

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• Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates

• Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies

References

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1. ↑ "Remarks by the President on the Nominations to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit" . The White House, Office of the Press Secretary. 4 June 2013. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
2. ↑ "Potential Supreme Court Nominees" . The New York Times. February 14, 2016.
3. ↑ "Senate Judiciary Committee Nomination Questionnaire" (PDF). Senate Judiciary Committee. Retrieved 2016-02-15.
4. ↑ "Richard Millett" . …