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Toby Jay Heytens
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Active service.
Confirmed 53 to 43Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- July 13, 2021
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- July 28, 2021
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), September 23, 2021
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 53 to 43
- Confirmed
- November 1, 2021
- Commissioned
- November 2, 2021
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1975, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it.
Source: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges · This judge’s entry. Our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 92b677f26553b479.
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Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Law clerk, Hon. Edward R. Becker, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2000-2001
- Bristow Fellow, U.S. Department of Justice, 2001-2002
- Law clerk, Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court of the United States, 2002-2003
- Private practice, Washington, D.C., 2003-2006, 2014
- Visiting assistant professor, Cornell Law School, 2005
- University of Virginia School of Law, 2006-2021; associate professor, 2006-2014; co-director, Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, 2011, 2014-2015, 2016-2017; professor, 2014-2021; David H. Ibbeken '71 Research Professor, 2015-2018
- Assistant to the solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 2007-2010
- Appellate practice transition counsel, Office of the Attorney General, State of Virginia, 2018
- Solicitor general, State of Virginia, 2018-2021
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