Beryl Alaine Howell was born on December 3,1956 and is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
16 Facts About Beryl Howell
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Beryl Howell was the chief judge from 2016 to 2023.
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Beryl Howell attended public school in six states and Germany before graduating from Bryn Mawr College with her Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors in Philosophy in 1978 and from Columbia University School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1983.
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From 1987 to 1993, Beryl Howell was an assistant United States attorney for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, where she became deputy chief of the Narcotics section.
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From 1993 to 2003, Beryl Howell served on the staff of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary as a senior advisor to Chairman Patrick Leahy, including as the committee's general counsel starting in 1997.
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Beryl Howell was involved in national security issues, including the creation of the USA PATRIOT Act, which she defended in 2005 in an article for the Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly.
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From 2004 to 2009, Beryl Howell was executive vice president, executive managing director, and general counsel at Stroz Friedberg, a global digital risk management and investigations firm.
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In 2008, Beryl Howell served as a member of the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, sponsored by bipartisan think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Beryl Howell teaches legal ethics as an adjunct professor at the American University's Washington College of Law.
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On July 14,2010, Howell was nominated by President Barack Obama to the seat vacated by Judge Paul L Friedman, who assumed senior status on December 31,2009.
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Beryl Howell was confirmed by the US Senate on December 22,2010.
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Beryl Howell received her judicial commission on December 27,2010.
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Beryl Howell served as the chief judge from March 17,2016 to March 17,2023.
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Beryl Howell did so in violation of a 1949 federal law that makes such protests a crime.
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In 2018, Beryl Howell struck down a regulation of the Federal Election Commission allowing dark money groups, certain nonprofit organizations engaged in political activities, to conceal their donors.
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In that same year, Beryl Howell became the supervising judge for the grand jury working for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.