1. Beryl Alaine Howell was born on December 3,1956 and is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a senior United States district judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
19 Facts About Beryl Howell
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Beryl Howell was appointed to the District of Columbia federal court in 2010 by President Barack Obama, and she served as its chief judge from 2016 to 2023.
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Beryl Howell is the daughter of an US Army officer and is Jewish.
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Beryl Howell attended elementary and secondary school in six states and Germany.
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Beryl Howell then attended Columbia Law School, graduating in 1983 with a Juris Doctor as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
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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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In November 2023, Beryl Howell received the Champion Award for people who advance opportunities for women in "the white collar field".
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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.