Lost, Not Stolen

Thomas B. Griffith was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the D. C. Circuit by President George W. Bush in 2005. A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Judge Griffith was a litigation partner at Wiley, Rein and Fielding in Washington, D. C., prior to being named the nonpartisan Senate Legal Counsel of the United States. In that capacity, he represented the interests of the Senate in litigation and advised the Senate leadership and its committees on investigations, including the impeachment trial of President Clinton. Prior to his appointment to the D.C. Circuit, Judge Griffith was the General Counsel of Brigham Young University. He has long been active in rule of law projects in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. He retired from the D. C. Circuit in 2020. In 2021, President Biden appointed Judge Griffith to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court. Currently he is Special Counsel at Hunton Andrews Kurth, a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, and a Fellow at the Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University.