Join the McBaine Honors Moot Court final round judges for a discussion on clerking and pathways to the bench. Confirmed judges are:

• Judge Harris Hartz (10th Cir.)
• Judge Karen Moore (6th Cir.)
• Judge Jennifer Sung (9th Cir.)

Judge Harris L Hartz has been a member of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals since December 2001. From 1989-99 he was a judge on the New Mexico Court of Appeals, serving as chief judge from 1997-99. He served as Chair of the Appellate Judges Conference of the ABA in 2004‒05 and Chair of the ABA Appellate Practice Institute in 2001-02. Judge Hartz is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was Case and Developments Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received his AB degree from Harvard College summa cum laude in physics. From 2002‒09 Judge Hartz was a member of the Judicial Conference’s Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure and from 2013-2019 was a member of the Judicial Conference’s Federal-State Jurisdiction Committee. He is a co-author of The Law of Judicial Precedent and has been an adviser to the ALI Restatement of Agency (Third) and Principles of Government Ethics.

Judge Karen Nelson Moore was sworn in as a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on March 29, 1995. A graduate of Harvard University-Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School, both magna cum laude, she served as a law clerk for Judge Malcolm Wilkey on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice Harry A. Blackmun on the Supreme Court. After spending two years as a litigation associate at Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Cleveland, she joined the faculty at Case Western Reserve Law School, where she held the Petersilge Chair. Her major teaching and scholarship fields were civil procedure, complex litigation, Supreme Court practice, and federal income taxation. In 1990-91, she was a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.  Since 1995, she has served on numerous committees of the federal judiciary, including the Judicial Conference Committees on Judicial Security and on Information Technology.

The Honorable Jennifer Sung was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 2021 by President Joe Biden. Previously, she sat on the Oregon Employment Relations Board (2017-2021). Judge Sung had a civil litigation practice in Portland at McKanna Bishop Joffe LLP, and in San Francisco, at Altshuler Berzon LLP. She also completed a Skadden Fellowship at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, and served as a clerk for the Honorable Betty Binns Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit. Judge Sung received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her J.D. from Yale Law School.

If you have questions, or would like to submit questions for the panelists, email Anna Han in the CDO at ahan@law.berkeley.edu.

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