Stephen Andrew Higginson

b. 1961 · Boston, MA

Judicial Service

CourtTitleAppointed ByCommissionedTermination
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth CircuitJudgeBarack Obama (Democratic)Nov 2, 2011

Education

  • Harvard College, A.B., 1983
  • Yale Law School, J.D., 1987
  • University of Cambridge, M.Phil., 1992

Professional Career

Law clerk, Hon. Patricia Wald, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1987-1988; Law clerk, Hon. Byron White, Supreme Court of the United States, 1988-1989; Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Massachusetts, 1989-1993; Assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Louisiana, 1993-2011; Associate professor, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, 2004-2011

Other Federal Judicial Service

  • Judge, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, 2021-present; presiding judge, 2023-present

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