Meet the Panel: Iraq Intelligence Panel Member Patricia Wald

Various ^ | 02/07/2004 | Myself

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Judge Patricia Wald

Judge Patricia Wald, a graduate of Connecticut College (B.A. 1948) and Yale Law School (LL.B. 1951), was admitted to the Bar in 1952. She served, among other positions, as a law clerk to Judge Jerome N. Frank of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals and as Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs in the Department of Justice prior to being appointed to the bench in 1979. Judge Wald served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1979 until 1999, serving as Chief Judge of the Court from 1986 to 1991. She left the federal bench in 1999 to serve two years as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Judge Wald is a Council Member and First Vice President of the American Law Institute and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. . She also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Open Society Justice Initiative. Judge Wald is the author of Law and Poverty (1965) and co-author of Bail in the United States (1964) and Dealing with Drug Abuse (1973), and she has also written numerous articles on legal subjects. Judge Wald is a member of the Executive Board of the American Bar Association's Central and Eastern European Law Institute and has sat on the Board of Editors of the ABA Journal. She has received some 20 honorary degrees and has been honored as well by the American and Women's Bar Associations and the Environmental Law Institute.

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What was Bush thinking?

Here is a link to the "initiative's" web site: www.soros.org/initiatives/osji

Yes -- You are seeing that correctly. George Soros has a member on the panel. I wonder if her position is going to be a considered a conflict of interest...

I started putting everyone else together, but this was by far the most interesting member (aside from the nutbag from VA). GW is playing a very dangerous game...

[BCrago66]

The best way to judge her is to scan her votes and written opinions on the appellate panels she served on in the DC Court of Appeals. I have, and while she's a liberal, she doesn't seem to be unreasonable or a whack-job.

[Bobibutu]

I think he knows more than you and I do - and we will see.

[John Beresford Tipton]

"Judge Wald served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1979 until 1999, serving as Chief Judge of the Court from 1986 to 1991."

That contains an error.
She served on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals for most of that time, that is the "State Court" equivalent for DC.

She then went on the federal Court of Appeals.
So though she served those years on a "Court of Appeals" they were two different courts, one "state" and one federal, but both in DC.

[soozla]

My sentiments...EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!