1. Patricia Ann Millett is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
12 Facts About Patricia Millett
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Patricia Millett was born in 1963 in Dexter, Maine, though she grew up in Marine, Illinois.
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Patricia Millett then was a law clerk for Judge Thomas Tang of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1990 to 1992.
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From 1992 to 1996, Patricia Millett worked for the United States Department of Justice Civil Division's appellate staff, briefing and arguing more than 20 cases before federal appeals courts and occasionally state appeals courts.
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Patricia Millett authored the Solicitor General's brief in pathbreaking cases including Tennessee v Lane and Nevada Department of Human Resources v Hibbs.
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In February 2009, Legal Times reported that Millett was one of five Virginia residents recommended by the voluntary Virginia Bar Association lawyer organization to serve as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, along with Virginia state senator John S Edwards, Virginia Supreme Court Justice Barbara Milano Keenan, then University of Virginia School of Law professor James Ryan and former Virginia Supreme Court Justice John Thomas.
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On February 26,2009, the Virginia State Bar separately deemed Millett to be "highly qualified" for the vacancy, along with Edwards, Keenan, and attorney Richard A Simpson.
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On June 4,2013, Obama nominated Patricia Millett to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to the seat vacated by Judge John Roberts, who was elevated to the United States Supreme Court on September 25,2005.
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In November 2021, Patricia Millett dissented in a case that struck down the EPA's fuel efficiency standards for trailers on trucks.
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In December 2021, Patricia Millett wrote the majority opinion in a case brought by former president Donald Trump to block the release of presidential records that the congressional committee investigating the January 6,2021, attack on the US Capitol.
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Patricia Millett is active in Aldersgate United Methodist Church and has a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, according to her answers to a questionnaire for the US Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Patricia Millett's husband, King, is a Navy veteran who deployed for Operation Iraqi Freedom and the war in Afghanistan.