Patricia Millett

Patricia Millett
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Incumbent
Assumed office December 10, 2013
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	John Roberts
Personal details
Born	September 1963 (age 60) Dexter, Maine, U.S.
Education	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (BA) Harvard University (JD)

Patricia Ann Millett (/mɪˈlɛt/ ^ⓘ; born September 1963) is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2013 as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She formerly headed the Supreme Court practice at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Millett also was a longtime former assistant to the United States Solicitor General and served as an occasional blogger for SCOTUSblog. At the time of her confirmation to the D.C. Circuit, she had argued 32 cases before the United States Supreme Court.^[1] In February 2016 The New York Times identified her as a potential nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.^[2]

Millett's 2013 nomination to the D.C. Circuit, along with the nominations of Robert L. Wilkins and Nina Pillard, ultimately became central to the debate over the use of the filibuster in the United States Senate, leading to the use of the nuclear option to bring it to the floor for a vote.