Douglas Ginsburg
Senior Circuit Judge
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Douglas H. Ginsburg is one of the most prominent scholars of law and economics currently on the bench. He has been a judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit since his appointment in November 1986. He served as chief judge from July 2001 until February 2008.
After law school, he was law clerk to the Hon. Carl G. McGowan on the D.C. Circuit and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. He then joined the Harvard Law School faculty from 1975 until 1983, before serving as deputy assistant U.S. attorney general for regulatory affairs in the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) Antitrust Division from 1983 to 1984; administrator of information and regulatory affairs with the Office of Management and Budget from 1984 to 1985; and assistant U.S. attorney general of the DOJ Antitrust Division from 1985 to 1986.
Judge Ginsburg graduated from Cornell University and from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was the articles editor of the University of Chicago Law Review.
