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Neomi Jehangir Rao
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit · 2019
Neomi Jehangir Rao, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Senate voted 53–46 on the nomination on Mar 13, 2019 (Nomination Confirmed).
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- United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit
116th Congress · Nomination Confirmed53–46 · Mar 13, 2019
Education
- Yale UniversityB.A., 1995
- University of Chicago Law SchoolJ.D., 1999
- Temple Bar Scholar, American Inns of Court2002
Career
Law clerk, Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson III, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1999-2000; Counsel for nominations and constitutional law, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 2000-2001; Law clerk, Hon. Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States, 2001-2002; Private practice, London, United Kingdom, 2002-2005; Associate counsel and special assistant to President George W. Bush, 2005-2006; Professor, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, 2006-2019; director and founder, C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, 2015-2017; Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 2017-2019
Biography
Neomi Jehangir Rao (born 1973) is an American jurist and legal scholar serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was appointed in 2019 by President Donald Trump, having served in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2019 as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
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