Lawrence VanDyke serves as a circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to that appointment in January 2020, he served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice. Before that, he served consecutively as the Solicitor General of two western states – Nevada and Montana. At the beginning of his legal career, he worked as an attorney in the Appellate and Constitutional Issues practice group at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP.
Judge VanDyke received his law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor on the Harvard Law Review. He has engineering and theology undergraduate degrees and a masters degree in engineering management. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Janice Rogers Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Judge VanDyke and his wife Cheryl live in Reno, Nevada, and they have three children.
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Panel III: Border Litigation
2024 Texas Chapters Conference
Omni Fort Worth Hotel1300 Houston St
Fort Worth, TX 76102
NoVA Summer Social
NoVA Lawyers Chapter
Questioning the Bench: A Q&A Session with Judge Lawrence VanDyke and Judge Ryan Holte
Nevada Student Chapter
William S. Boyd School of Law4505 S Maryland Pkwy
Las Vegas, NV 89154
Binding Dicta in the Ninth Circuit
Chicago Student Chapter
University of Chicago Law School1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Judges Interviewing Judges feat. Hon. Stephen R. Clark & Hon. Lawrence VanDyke
St. Louis Lawyers Chapter
Ritz Carlton - St. Louis100 Carondelet Plaza
St. Louis, MO 63105
Binding Dicta in the Ninth Circuit
Dallas Lawyers Chapter
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C.500 N. Akard Street, Suite 4000
Dallas, TX 75201
Second Amendment: Will the Supreme Court Adhere to Bruen (and Originalism) in Rahimi and Beyond?
2023 National Lawyers Convention
Oral argument was held in U.S. v. Rahimi on November 7, 2023. The case asks...
Second Amendment: Will the Supreme Court Adhere to Bruen (and Originalism) in Rahimi and Beyond?
2023 National Lawyers Convention
Oral argument was held in U.S. v. Rahimi on November 7, 2023. The case asks...
Panel 1: The Not So Wild West? How Regulations Have Affected Land Use in the Western States
2023 Western Chapters Conference
The rising cost of housing and the regulatory state are some of the major issues...
Panel 1: The Not So Wild West? How Regulations Have Affected Land Use in the Western States
2023 Western Chapters Conference
The rising cost of housing and the regulatory state are some of the major issues...
Environmental Law After West Virginia v. EPA: Can the Biden Administration’s “Whole of Government” Approaches Survive Judicial Review?
2022 National Lawyers Convention
The Biden Administration began with executive orders on an environmental policy agenda, directing a “whole...