Hon. Thomas D. Schroeder

University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; B.S., Business Administration, Kansas University (1981); J.D., Notre Dame Law School (1984).  Editor-in-Chief, Notre Dame Law Review.  Law clerk, Honorable George E. MacKinnon, U.S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. 

Private practice of law for over 22 years with Am Law 100 firm, handling litigation and trials involving a variety of business and product liability matters, many in the capacity as national counsel in litigation pending in state and federal courts throughout the country.  

Took oath of office as U.S. District Judge in 2008.  

Member, American Law Institute.  Senior Lecturing Fellow (periodically), Duke University Law School.  Member, North Carolina Bar Association (former Vice President and co-chair of Bench/Bar Liaison Committee); Winston-Salem Downtown Rotary Club; Board of Directors, Chief Justice Joseph Branch American Inn of Court (President 2016-18); Board of Directors, Notre Dame Law Association (President 2021-23) .  

Appointed by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. to serve on the Federal Rules of Evidence Advisory Committee of the United States Judicial Conference (2017-2023); chaired subcommittee on amendments to Rule 702.  

Member, Federal Judicial Center and National Academies of Sciences’ Committee on Emerging Areas of Science, Engineering, and Medicine for the Courts: Identifying Chapters for a Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence – a Workshop (2020-21); Member, Committee on the Development of the Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (current).