JUDITH
W. ROGERS
Judge Rogers was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals in March 1994.
She had previously served on the
District of Columbia Court of Appeals since 1983, becoming Chief Judge in 1988.
Following her graduation from Radcliffe
College and Harvard Law School, she served as an Assistant United States
Attorney in the District of Columbia and subsequently at the Justice Department
in the Deputy Attorney General’s Office and the Criminal Division. Then, after serving as General Counsel to the
congressional commission on the organization of the District of Columbia, she
worked for the Mayor of the District of Columbia on congressional and local
legislation. She became the Corporation
Counsel for the District of Columbia in 1979 and served until her appointment
to the bench in 1983. In 1988, Judge
Rogers received a Master of Laws degree from the University of
Virginia Law School.