President Obama nominated appellate lawyer Paul J. Watford to serve on the Ninth Circuit yesterday.
Watford practices appellate law at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles. He is a member of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, an Appellate Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, and past co-chair of the ABA Litigation Section’s Appellate Practice Committee. He clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg after graduating from UCLA Law School.