Christopher Reid Cooper

Nonpartisan

United States District Court for the District of Columbia

Tenure

2014 - Present

Years in position

11

Education

Bachelor's

Yale University, 1988

Law

Stanford Law School, 1993

Personal

Birthplace

Mobile, AL

Contact

Official website

Christopher Reid Cooper is afederal judge for theUnited States District Court for the District of Columbia. He has served on the court since 2014.^[1]

Early life and education

A native ofMobile, Alabama, Cooper earned his B.A. from Yale University in 1988 and hisJ.D. from Stanford Law School in 1993.^[1]

Professional career

• 2014-Present: Judge,United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• 2010-2014: Private practice, London, England
• 1996-2010: Private practice,Washington, D.C.
• 1994-1996: Special assistant to the deputy attorney general,United States Department of Justice
• 1993-1994: Law clerk, Hon.Abner Mikva,United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit^[1]

Judicial career

District of Columbia

Nomination Tracker
Nominee Information
Name: Christopher Reid Cooper
Court:United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Progress
Confirmed 237 days after nomination.
ANominated: August 1, 2013
AABA Rating:Majority Well Qualified, Minority Qualified
Questionnaire:Questionnaire
AHearing: November 6, 2013
QFRs:QFRs(Hover over QFRs to read more)
AReported: January 16, 2014
AConfirmed: March 26, 2014
AVote: 100-0
AReturned: January 3, 2014

On August 1, 2013, PresidentBarack Obama nominated Cooper to theUnited States District Court for the District of Columbia to a seat vacated by JudgeRoyce Lamberth.^[2] Obama commented on Cooper's and others' nominations, stating:

Cooper was ratedMajority Well Qualified, Minority Qualified by theAmerican Bar Association.^[5]

Hearings on Cooper's nomination were held before theSenate Judiciary Committee on November 6, 2013. Cooper's nomination was returned to President Obama at thesine die adjournment of the113th United States Congress. Obama resubmitted Cooper's nomination on January 6, 2014, and his nomination was reported by U.S. Sen.Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), without hearings, on January 16, 2014. Cooper was confirmed on a recorded 100-0 vote of theU.S. Senate on March 26, 2014, and he received his commission two days later.^[1][6][7]

See also

• United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

External links

Suggest a link

• Judge Cooper's biography from theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the District of Columbia
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 (District of Columbia)  •  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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