Nina Pillard

Nina Pillard is a United States Circuit Judge for the District of Columbia Circuit, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2014. She is known for her expertise in civil rights, administrative law, and constitutional law. Pillard previously served as a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel. Recently, she was in the news for her dissenting opinion in a federal appeals court ruling that halted criminal contempt proceedings against Trump administration officials in an immigration case, where she defended the judicial authority of Judge James Boasberg.