THOMAS
B. GRIFFITH
Judge Griffith was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in June
2005. A graduate of Brigham Young
University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Judge Griffith was
engaged in private practice from 1985 – 1995 and again in 1999, first in
Charlotte, North Carolina, where he was an associate at Robinson, Bradshaw and
Hinson, and later in Washington, D.C., where he was an associate and then a
partner at Wiley, Rein and Fielding. His
primary areas of emphasis were commercial and corporate litigation and
government investigations. From 1995 –
99, Judge Griffith was Senate Legal Counsel of the United States. In that capacity, he represented the interests
of the Senate in litigation and advised the Senate leadership and its
committees on investigations, including the impeachment trial of President
Clinton. From 2000 until his appointment
to the United States Court of Appeals, Judge Griffith was Assistant to the
President and General Counsel of Brigham Young University. I n 1999 – 2000, Judge
Griffith was General Counsel to the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce,
a congressional commission created to study the interplay between tax policy
and electronic commerce. In 2002 – 03,
Judge Griffith served as a member of the United States Secretary of Education’s
Commission on Opportunity in Athletics, which examined the role of Title IX in
intercollegiate athletics. Judge
Griffith has long been active in the American Bar Association’s Central
European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI). He currently serves on the CEELI Council of
the ABA’s Rule of Law Initiative and on the board of directors of the CEELI
Institute in Prague. Since joining the
Court, Judge Griffith has taught courses on Presidential Powers and Judicial
Process at the Brigham Young University Law School and on the Role of an
Article III judge at Stanford Law School.