In 2020, he was appointed to the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court and designated chief judge. His term as presiding judge and judge of the FISC ended on May 19, 2021.Īppointment to Alien Terrorist Removal court On December 20, 2019, the FISC announced he will replace the presiding judge FISC Janu and elevated to preside. Roberts announced that he would appoint Boasberg to the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for a term starting to a seat being vacated by Reggie Walton. On February 7, 2014, Chief Justice John G. Appointment to United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court īoasberg is considered a feeder judge, sending numerous clerks to the Supreme Court. He became the chief judge on March 17, 2023. He received his commission on March 17, 2011. Boasberg was confirmed on Maby a 96–0 vote. On June 17, 2010, President Barack Obama formally nominated Boasberg to the district court for the District of Columbia. During the 111th Congress, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton recommended Boasberg to fill a judicial vacancy on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He served in the civil and criminal divisions, and the domestic violence branch, until his appointment to the federal bench in 2011. In September 2002, Boasberg became an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, having been appointed by President George W. In 1996, Boasberg joined the office of the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia where he would spend 5.5 years as a prosecutor, specializing in homicides. He then went into private practice, working in San Francisco at Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP (1991–94) and then in the District of Columbia at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick (1995–96). Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for the 1990–91 term.
Clerkship and legal career Īfter completing law school, Boasberg served as a law clerk for Judge Dorothy W. He graduated in 1990 with a Juris Doctor. He then attended Yale Law School, where he was a classmate of future Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh. From 1986 to 1987, Boasberg was a history teacher and women's basketball coach at the Horace Mann School in New York City. The following year, he received a Master of Studies degree from St Peter's College, Oxford. Īfter high school, Boasberg attended Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones and graduated in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude. when Boasberg's father accepted a position in Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, a Great Society agency responsible for implementing and administering many of Lyndon B. He served as the presiding judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2020 to 2021 and is a former associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.īoasberg was born in San Francisco, California, in 1963, to Sarah Margaret ( née Szold) and Emanuel Boasberg III. James Emanuel "Jeb" Boasberg (born February 20, 1963) is the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
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