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Neomi Jehangir Rao
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Active service.
Confirmed 53 to 46Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Donald J. Trump
- Nominated
- January 23, 2019
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- February 5, 2019
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), February 28, 2019
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 53 to 46
- Confirmed
- March 13, 2019
- Commissioned
- March 18, 2019
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1973, 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. 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
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