James Harvie Wilkinson III

Education

• Yale UniversityB.A., 1967
• University of Virginia School of LawJ.D., 1972

Career

U.S. Army, 1968-1969; Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia, 1970; Law clerk, Hon. Lewis F. Powell, Supreme Court of the United States, 1972-1973; Faculty, University of Virginia School of Law, 1973-1978, 1983; associate professor, 1973-1978; professor, 1983; Editorial page editor, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, 1978-1981; Deputy assistant attorney general, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1982-1983; Board member, Federal Judicial Center, 1992-1996; Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1996-2003

Biography

James Harvie Wilkinson III (born September 29, 1944) is an American attorney and jurist who has served as a United States circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit since 1984. He was appointed to the Fourth Circuit by President Ronald Reagan and he served as chief judge of the circuit from 1996 to 2003.

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