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Cornelia Thayer Livingston Pillard
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Active service.
Confirmed 51 to 44Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama
- Nominated
- June 4, 2013
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- July 24, 2013
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), September 19, 2013
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 51 to 44
- Confirmed
- December 12, 2013
- Commissioned
- December 17, 2013
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1961, 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. Louis H. Pollak, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1987-1988
- Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellow, American Civil Liberties Union, New York City, 1988-1989
- Assistant counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, New York City, 1989-1994
- Assistant to the solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1994-1997
- Faculty, Georgetown University Law Center, 1997-1998, 2000-2013; associate professor, 1997-1998, 2000-2005; professor, 2005-2013
- Deputy assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, 1998-2000
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