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.
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Luncheon Address & Panel: Administrative State on the Brink?
Tenth Annual Executive Branch Review
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, D.C., DC 20036
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
III: 21st Century Federalism: A View from the States (Roundtable)
2022 National Student Symposium
University of Virginia School of Law580 Massie Rd
Charlottesville, VA 22903
A Conversation with Judge Neomi Rao
George Mason Student Chapter
Antonin Scalia Law School3301 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22201
Originalism: Perspectives from the Bench
2021 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Luncheon Address & Panel: Administrative State on the Brink?
Tenth Annual Executive Branch Review
Over the past 85 years the administrative state has been a dominant feature in the...
III: 21st Century Federalism: A View from the States (Roundtable)
2022 National Student Symposium
This panel will center discussion on the role of the states in our constitutional order—by...
III: 21st Century Federalism: A View from the States (Roundtable)
2022 National Student Symposium
This panel will center discussion on the role of the states in our constitutional order—by...
Originalism: Perspectives from the Bench
2021 National Lawyers Convention
The 2021 National Lawyers Convention took place November 11-13, 2021 at the Mayflower Hotel in...
Originalism: Perspectives from the Bench
2021 National Lawyers Convention
The 2021 National Lawyers Convention took place November 11-13, 2021 at the Mayflower Hotel in...