Neomi Jehangir Rao
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Born 1973.
Federal judicial service
Newest firstJudge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Appointed by
- Donald J. Trump (Republican)
- Nominated
- Jan 23, 2019
- Senate vote
- 53 to 46
- Confirmed
- Mar 13, 2019
- Commissioned
- Mar 18, 2019
Education
- B.A., Yale University, 1995
- J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1999
- Temple Bar Scholar, American Inns of Court, 2002
Career
- Law clerk, Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson III, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1999-2000
- Counsel for nominations and constitutional law, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 2000-2001
- Law clerk, Hon. Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States, 2001-2002
- Private practice, London, United Kingdom, 2002-2005
- Associate counsel and special assistant to President George W. Bush, 2005-2006
- Professor, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, 2006-2019
- director and founder, C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, 2015-2017
- Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 2017-2019
Other nominations
Nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, November 14, 2018; no Senate vote
DataSources: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal JudgesData as of Oct 29, 2026
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