Thomas B. Griffith
Thomas Griffith | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit | |
| In office June 29, 2005 – September 1, 2020 | |
| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Patricia Wald |
| Succeeded by | Justin R. Walker |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Thomas Beall Griffith July 5, 1954 |
| Education | Brigham Young University (BA) University of Virginia (JD) |
Thomas Beall Griffith (born July 5, 1954) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2020. Currently, he is a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, a fellow at the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University (BYU), and special counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth. He is also a member of the Federalist Society.
Before being appointed to the D.C. Circuit, Griffith was BYU's general counsel (2000-2005); Senate Legal Counsel, the non-partisan chief legal officer of the United States Senate (1995-1999); and a partner at Wiley Rein. He is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and, having been long active in rule-of-law programs in former communist nations, Griffith is also a member of the international advisory board of the CEELI Institute in Prague. He formerly served as a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (2021).