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Douglas Howard Ginsburg
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Senior status since October 14, 2011.
Confirmed by voice voteConfirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Ronald Reagan
- Nominated
- September 23, 1986
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- October 1, 1986
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), October 2, 1986
- Senate vote
- Voice vote, no count printed
- Confirmed
- October 8, 1986
- Commissioned
- October 14, 1986
- Senior status
- Since October 14, 2011
- American Bar Association rating
- Qualified
Born 1946, 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. Carl McGowan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1973-1974
- Law clerk, Hon. Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court of the United States, 1974-1975
- Professor of law, Harvard University, 1975-1983
- Deputy assistant attorney general, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1983-1984
- Administrator for information and regulatory affairs, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, 1984-1985
- Assistant attorney general, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1985-1986
- Visiting professor of law, Columbia University, 1987-1988
- Lecturer on law, Harvard University, 1988-1989
- Distinguished adjunct professor of law, George Mason University, 1988-2010
- Visiting senior lecturer, University of Chicago, 1990-
- Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 2001-2008
- Distinguished visiting scholar, New York Law School, 2006-2009
- Lecturer in law, Columbia University, 2009-2011
- Professor of law, New York University Law School, 2011-2013
- Professor of law, George Mason University, 2013-
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