Patricia McGowan Wald

Judicial Service

Education

• Connecticut College for Women (now Connecticut College), B.A., 1948
• Yale Law School, LL.B., 1951

Professional Career

Law clerk, Hon. Jerome Frank, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1951-1952; Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1952-1953; Research and editorial assistant, Frederick M. Rowe, Esq., 1959-1962; Member, National Conference on Bail and Criminal Justice, 1963-1964; Consultant, National Conference on Law & Poverty, Office of Economic Opportunity, 1965; Member, President's Commission on Crime in the District of Columbia, 1965-1966; Consultant, President's Commission on Law Enforcement & Administration of Criminal Justice, 1966-1967; Attorney, Office of Criminal Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, 1967-1968; Attorney, Neighborhood Legal Services Program, Washington, D.C., 1968-1970; Consultant, National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorder, 1968; Consultant, National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, 1969; Co-director, Ford Foundation Drug Abuse Research Project, 1970; Attorney, Center for Law and Social Policy, Washington, D.C., 1971-1972; Director, Office of Policy and Issues, Sargent Shriver Vice-Presidential Campaign, 1972; Attorney, Mental Health Law Project, Washington, D.C., 1972-1977; Assistant attorney general for legislative affairs, U.S. Department of Justice, 1977-1979; Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1986-1990; Member, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 1999-2001

External Links

• Federal Judicial Center Biography