Judge Rao was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in March 2019. She graduated from Yale College in 1995 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1999. Following graduation, she served as a law clerk to Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and, in the 2001 October Term, as law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. Between her clerkships, Judge Rao served as counsel for nominations and constitutional law to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. In 2002, she joined the international arbitration group of Clifford Chance LLP in London, England. From 2005-2006, she served as Special Assistant and Associate White House Counsel to President George W. Bush. From 2006 to 2017, Judge Rao was a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where she taught constitutional law, legislation and statutory interpretation, and the history and foundations of the administrative state. In 2014, she founded the Center for the Study of the Administrative State, a non-profit Center that promotes academic scholarship and public policy debates about administrative law. In July 2017, she was appointed to serve as the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management Budget. She served in this position until her appointment to the D.C. Circuit.
2022 Thomas M. Cooley Judicial Lecture, Prize Ceremony, & Alumni Dinner
Co-Hosted by the Faculty Division and Georgetown Center for the Constitution
National Archives Museum701 Constitution Avenue Northwest
Washington, D.C., DC 20408
Small Dinner with Judge Neomi Rao
DC Young Lawyers Chapter Event
McCormick & Schmick's2010 Crystal Dr.
Arlington, VA 22202
Non-Delegation? Or No Divesting? Art. I, Sec. 1 at the Founding and Today
Administrative Law & Regulation and Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Groups
Online Event
Panel III: Unilateral Presidential War Powers
2021 National Student Symposium
Penn Law - Online Event
Religious Liberties: Religious Liberty and the New Court
2020 National Lawyers Convention
Zoom Webinar
Luncheon Debate: Resolved: The Electoral College Should Be Abrogated
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
The Omni Shoreham Hotel2500 Calvert St NW
Washington, DC 20008
Necessary & Proper Episode 67: Non-Delegation? Or No Divesting? Art. I, Sec. 1 at the Founding and Today
On May 17, as part of their annual Executive Branch Review Conference, the Federalist Society's...
Non-Delegation? Or No Divesting? Art. I, Sec. 1 at the Founding and Today
Administrative Law & Regulation and Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Groups
Whether as the result of hyper-partisanship or as a residue of the constitutional design for...
Panel III: Unilateral Presidential War Powers
2021 National Student Symposium
Presidents of both parties now regularly claim the authority to take offensive military interventions without...
Religious Liberties: Religious Liberty and the New Court
2020 National Lawyers Convention
On November 9, 2020, The Federalist Society's Religious Liberties Practice Group hosted a virtual panel...
Religious Liberties: Religious Liberty and the New Court
2020 National Lawyers Convention
On November 9, 2020, The Federalist Society's Religious Liberties Practice Group hosted a virtual panel...