Thomas B. Griffith

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Thomas B. Griffith
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
In office June 29, 2005 – September 1, 2020
Appointed by	George W. Bush
Preceded by	Patricia Wald
Succeeded by	Justin R. Walker
Personal details
Born	(1954-07-05) July 5, 1954 (age 70) Yokohama, Japan
Education	Brigham Young University (BA) University of Virginia (JD)

Thomas Beall Griffith (born July 5, 1954) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as a U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2020. Currently, he is a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School,^[1] a fellow at the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University (BYU),^[2] and special counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth.^[3]

Before being appointed to the D.C. Circuit, Griffith was BYU's general counsel (2000-2005); Senate Legal Counsel, the non-partisan chief legal officer of the United States Senate (1995-1999); and a partner at Wiley Rein. He is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and, having been long active in rule-of-law programs in former communist nations, Griffith is also a member of the international advisory board of the CEELI Institute in Prague. He formerly served as a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (2021).^[4]