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Barbara Rothstein
2011 - Present
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2011 - Present
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Barbara Jacobs Rothstein is a visiting federal judge on senior status with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She has been a visiting judge on the district court since 2011, when she assumed senior status.
Rothstein is also a federal judge on senior status for the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, where she served as an active judge from 1980 to 2003. She was first nominated to the federal bench in 1980 by President Jimmy Carter. She was chief judge of the Western District of Washington court from 1987-1994.[1][2]
From 2003 to 2011, Rothstein was the director of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington D.C.
Early life and education
A native of New York, New York, Rothstein graduated from Cornell University with her bachelor's degree in 1960 and from Harvard Law School with her LL.B. in 1966.[1]
Professional career
- 2011-Present:
- Senior visiting judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- Senior judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
- 2003-2011: Director, Federal Judicial Center
- 1980-2011: Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
- 1977-1980: Judge, King County Superior Court
- 1975-1977: Adjunct professor, University of Washington Law School
- 1968-1977: Assistant attorney general and chief trial attorney, consumer protection and antitrust division, Washington state attorney general's office
- 1966-1968: Private practice, Boston, Mass.[1]
Judicial career
Western District of Washington
Rothstein was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on December 3, 1979, to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629. Rothstein was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 20, 1980, and she received her commission the same day. Rothstein served as the chief judge of the court from 1987 to 1994. Pursuant to 104 Stat. 5089, no successor to Rothstein was appointed because hers was the first seat to become vacant following her return to the court in 2011 from her appointment as director of the Federal Judicial Center.[1][3]
District of Columbia
Rothstein took administrative leave to serve as director of the Federal Judicial Center (FJC) in Washington, D.C., from 2003 to 2011. After she left the FJC, Rothstein elected to take senior status beginning on September 1, 2011, and she has served as a visiting federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.[4][2]
Noteworthy cases
Washington v. DeVos (2020)
Washington v. DeVos: On August 21, 2020, Judge Barbara Rothstein, of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, granted a request by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson (D) to block a U.S. Department of Education interim final rule regulating distribution of roughly $13.5 billion in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) aid. In its complaint, the state argued that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos had violated "the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), separation of powers, and the Spending Clause in the United States Constitution," by promulgating a rule "contrary to the clear, express statutory language of the CARES Act." The state further argued that the rule, if implemented, would deprive Washington’s public elementary and secondary schools from receiving emergency relief funds, as it would "either limit which public schools can use the funds, or reallocate significant funds to private schools regardless of student need." Rothstein ruled in the state's favor, finding that "private schools [would] receive a larger share of CARES Act funding than they would under a straight-forward application" of the act's poverty-based formula. Rothstein concluded that the rule "was in excess of statutory authority and not in accordance with law."[5][6]
See also
- United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Federal Judicial Center, "Biography of Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein," accessed April 14, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, "Senior Judge Barbara J. Rothstein," accessed April 14, 2016
- ↑ Federal Judicial Center, "U.S. District Courts for the Districts of Washington: Succession Charts," accessed May 10, 2017
- ↑ University of South Carolina, "Washington," accessed April 14, 2016
- ↑ United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, "Washington v. DeVos: Order Granting Motion for Preliminary Injunction," August 21, 2020
- ↑ United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, "Washington v. DeVos: Complaint," July 20, 2020
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by: NA-New Seat 92 Stat. 1629 |
Western District of Washington 1980–2011 Seat #6 |
Succeeded by: NA
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: James E. BoasbergChief Judge: Rudolph Contreras • Christopher Reid Cooper • Tanya S. Chutkan • Randolph D. Moss • Amit Priyavadan Mehta • Dabney Friedrich • Timothy J. Kelly (District of Columbia) • Trevor McFadden • Carl Nichols • Katherine E. Oler • Jia Cobb • Loren AliKhan • Ana Reyes • Judith Pipe • Amir Ali • Sparkle Sooknanan | ||
| Senior judges |
Barbara Rothstein • Royce Lamberth • Thomas Hogan • Emmet Sullivan • Henry Kennedy • Richard Roberts (District of Columbia) • Ellen Huvelle • Rosemary Collyer • Reggie Walton • John Bates • Richard Leon • Paul Friedman • Joyce Green (District of Columbia) • Amy B. Jackson • Beryl A. Howell • | ||
| Magistrate judges | G. Michael Harvey • Zia Faruqui • | ||
| Former Article III judges |
Michael Boudin • Thomas Anderson (District of Columbia) • William Matthew Merrick • David Kellogg Cartter • George Purnell Fisher • Abram Baldwin Olin • Andrew Wylie • David Campbell Humphreys • Arthur MacArthur • Walter Smith Cox • Alexander Burton Hagner • Charles Pinckney James • Edward Franklin Bingham • Martin Montgomery • Andrew Coyle Bradley • Charles Cleaves Cole • Louis Emory McComas • Thomas H. Anderson • Job Barnard • Harry Clabaugh • Ashley Mulgrave Gould • Jeter Connelly Pritchard • Wendell Phillips Stafford • Daniel Thew Wright (District of Columbia) • Thomas Jennings Bailey • James Harry Covington • William Hitz • Walter Irving McCoy • Frederick Lincoln Siddons • Adolph Hoehling • Peyton Gordon • Louis Oberdorfer • Gladys Kessler • James Robertson (District of Columbia) • Ricardo Urbina • Colleen Kollar-Kotelly • Harold Leventhal • Alfred Adams Wheat • Jesse Corcoran Adkins • Joseph Winston Cox • Oscar Raymond Luhring • Fred Dickinson Letts • Daniel William O'Donoghue • James McPherson Proctor (Federal judge) • Bolitha Laws • Thomas Goldsborough • James W. Morris (Federal judge) • Thomas Penfield Jackson • Walter Bastian • Edward Tamm • William Bryant • Howard Corcoran • Edward Curran • Edward Eicher • Thomas Flannery • Oliver Gasch • Gerhard Gesell • June Green • Harold Greene • Stanley Harris • George Hart • Norma Johnson • Alexander Holtzoff • William Jones (District of Columbia) • Richmond Keech • James Kirkland • Burnita Matthews • Joseph McGarraghy • Matthew McGuire • Charles McLaughlin • John Penn • David Pine • John Pratt • George Revercomb • Charles Richey • Aubrey Robinson • Spottswood Robinson • Henry Schweinhaut • John Sirica • John Lewis Smith (United States District Court for the District of Columbia judge) • Stanley Sporkin • Joseph Waddy • Leonard Walsh • Luther Youngdahl • Barrington Daniels Parker, Sr. • Florence Pan • Robert Leon Wilkins • Ketanji Brown Jackson • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
David Kellogg Cartter • Edward Franklin Bingham • Harry Clabaugh • James Harry Covington • Walter Irving McCoy • Royce Lamberth • Thomas Hogan • Alfred Adams Wheat • Fred Dickinson Letts • Bolitha Laws • William Bryant • Edward Curran • Edward Eicher • George Hart • Norma Johnson • William Jones (District of Columbia) • Richmond Keech • Matthew McGuire • John Penn • David Pine • Aubrey Robinson • John Sirica • John Lewis Smith (United States District Court for the District of Columbia judge) • Beryl A. Howell • | ||
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| 1977 |
Ballantine • Bownes • Boyle • Bua • Carr • Clark • Cowan • Daly • Filippine • Higginbotham • Hoeveler • Hug • Johnstone • Kane • Keith • Leval • Logan • MacLaughlin • McKay • Melton • Merritt • Murphy • Nickerson • Oberdorfer • Roszkowski • Roy • Rubin • Sifton • Tang • Vance • Veron | ||
| 1978 |
Arnold • Baker • Boyle • Burns • Campos • Claiborne • Collins • Cook • Devine • Diamond • Duplantier • Edenfield • Friedman • Gonzalez • Greene • Jenkins • Lowe • Mazzone • McMillian • O'Brien • Pfaelzer • Phillips • Pollak • Sand • Shapiro • Simmons • Smith • Sweet • Tanner • Wiseman • Ziegler | ||
| 1979 |
Ackerman • Alarcon • Anderson • Arceneaux • Arnold • Aspen • Beatty • Beer • Belew • Bertelsman • Bilby • N. Black • S. Black • Bloch • Bowen • Brett • Brooks • Brown • Buchmeyer • Bunton • Burciaga • Cabranes • Carr • Carrigan • Castagna • Cire • Clark • Cohn • Conaboy • Cordova • Crabb • Cudahy • Davis • DeAnda • Debevoise • Edwards • Eginton • Ellison • Enslen • O. Evans • T. Evans • Farris • Ferguson • Fletcher • Frye • Garcia • Garza • B. Gibson • H. Gibson • Gierbolini-Ortiz • Giles • Gilliam • Green • Hall • Hastings • Hatchett • Hatfield • Hatter • Hawkins • Henderson • Higby • Hillman • Houck • Howard • Hudspeth • Hungate • F. Johnson • S. Johnson • N. Jones • S. Jones • Karlton • Kazen • Kearse • Keeton • Kehoe • Kennedy • Kidd • King • Kravitch • Loughlin • Martin • McCurn • McDonald • McNaught • McNichols • Mikva • Mitchell • Moran • Murnaghan • Murphy • D. Nelson • D.W. Nelson • Newblatt • Newman • Overton • Paine • Panner • J. Parker • R. Parker • Penn • Perez-Gimenez • Perry • Politz • Poole • Porter • Pregerson • Price • Rambo • Ramirez • Reavley • Redden • E. Reed • S. Reed • Reinhardt • Renner • Robinson • Rothstein • Sachs • Saffels • Sanders • Sarokin • Schroeder • Schwartz • Seay • Senter • Seymour • Shannon • Shaw • Shoob • Skopil • Sloviter • Sofaer • Spellman • Sprouse • Staker • Tate • Taylor • Thompson • Tidwell • Unthank • Vietor • Vining • Wald • Ward • Weinshienk • West • Wicker • Williams • Winder • Woods • Wright • Zobel | ||
| 1980 |
Aguilar • Aldrich • Anderson • Boochever • Breyer • Britt • Cahill • Canby • Carroll • Cerezo • Clemon • S. Ervin • R. Erwin • Getzendanner • Gilmore • Ginsburg • Haltom • Hardy • Henderson • Hobbs • Holschuh • Horton • Howard • Johnson • Keep • Kelly • Kenyon • Kocoras • Marquez • Marshall • Michael • Nixon • Norris • Patel • Polozola • Propst • Quackenbush • Ramsey • Rice • Shadur • Spiegel • Tashima • Thompson • Vela • White • Williams | ||
| 1981 | |||
