1. Neomi Jehangir Rao was born on March 22,1973 and is an American jurist and legal scholar serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2019.
18 Facts About Neomi Rao
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Neomi Rao was appointed by President Donald Trump, having served in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2019 as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
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Neomi Rao was previously a professor of law at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School.
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Neomi Rao grew up in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and attended Detroit Country Day School, graduating in 1991.
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From 1995 to 1996, Neomi Rao was a reporter for The Weekly Standard.
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Neomi Rao then attended the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a comment editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and executive editor of a symposium issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.
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Neomi Rao graduated in 1999 with a Juris Doctor with highest honors and Order of the Coif membership.
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Neomi Rao was legal counsel to the US Senate Judiciary Committee from 2000 to 2001, then clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the US Supreme Court from 2001 to 2002.
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In 2002, Neomi Rao entered private practice in London with the British law firm Clifford Chance, where she practiced public international law and arbitration.
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From 2005 to 2006, during the presidency of George W Bush, Rao was an associate with the White House Counsel.
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Neomi Rao is a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States and the governing council of the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, where she co-chairs the section's regulatory policy committee.
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Neomi Rao's nomination was sent to the Senate later that day.
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Neomi Rao's nomination was sent to the Senate later that day.
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Neomi Rao was criticized by disability rights activists such as Rebecca Cokley for a 2011 law review article and a blog post where then-Law Professor Neomi Rao expressed opposition to bans on dwarf-tossing.
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Democrats expressed concern that rules Neomi Rao worked to repeal in her role as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs could face legal challenges and wind up before the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, which is considered the second most powerful appeals court.
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Neomi Rao received her judicial commission on March 18,2019.
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The author suggests that Neomi Rao's "Americana Administrative Law" is a pitch for an aggrandized judiciary that can protect Congress from its own systemic decline.
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Neomi Rao is married to Alan Lefkowitz, a former law school classmate, with whom she has two children.