Rick has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 2002. His chambers are in Honolulu. After graduating from Princeton University (A.B. 1972) and Yale Law School (J.D. 1975), he moved to Hawaii to serve as a law clerk for Judge Herbert Y.C. Choy, the first Hawaii resident to serve on the Ninth Circuit and the first Article III federal judge of Asian ancestry. Rick was sharp enough to stay in the islands, and he practiced law in Honolulu for 25 years until his appointment to the court. He was a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction for ten years (2009-19), the last four years as its chair. In that capacity he was a liaison between federal and state courts and regularly attended meetings of the Conference of Chief Justices. He is a director of the American Judicature Society, the Ninth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, and the Hawaii Women’s Legal Foundation, and a member of the American Law Institute, the Ninth Circuit Pacific Islands Committee, and the Pacific Judicial Conference. For 24 years he was a director of Hawaii Public Radio, six years as its chair. He has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law intermittently since 1979 and has participated in programs as jurist in residence at several law schools. He is married to Terry Clifton, has two adult children, and is a devoted fan of the Chicago Cubs (often suffering, but not as much as before 2016). He assumed senior status on December 31, 2016, and continues to hear cases in that capacity.

Judge Leo M. Gordon was appointed to the U.S. Court of International Trade in March 2006. Judge Gordon’s career is one dedicated to public service. He began his career as Assistant Counsel to the Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives. There, Judge Gordon was the principal attorney responsible for the Customs Courts Act of 1980 that created the U.S. Court of International Trade, while also working on a wide range of antitrust and other commercial law legislative projects.

For 25 years, Judge Gordon was on the staff at the Court, serving first as Assistant Clerk and then Clerk of the Court until his appointment to the bench. Judge Gordon is a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Judges Association, serves on its Executive Committee, and co-chairs the Association’s Pay & Benefits Committee. He is also a Fellow of the International Customs Law Academy, and a Director of the Academia de Intercambio y Estudios Judiciales (“AIEJ”) (The Academy for the Interchange and Study of Judicial Matters) based in Buenos Aires. Judge Gordon plays a principal role in the development and implementation of AIEJ’s overall training program. He is the co-author, along with Daniel B. Garrie, of “Cybersecurity & the Courthouse–Safeguarding the Judicial Process” published by Wolters Kluwer.

Judge Gordon graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, and received a J.D. degree from Emory University School of Law.

Dan Polster was appointed a federal judge by President Clinton on August 3, 1998. He assumed Senior Status on January 31, 2021. Judge Polster assumed the vacancy created by the assumption of senior status by United States District Judge David D. Dowd, Jr.  Judge Polster is stationed in Cleveland, OH.  Prior to his appointment, he served as a federal prosecutor in Cleveland for 22 years, first as a trial attorney with the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and then for 16 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, handling a wide variety of fraud and corruption cases.  Judge Polster is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B. cum laude, 1972) and Harvard Law School (J.D. cum laude, 1976).  He and his wife, attorney Deborah Coleman, have three children and four grandchildren.

Robin S. Rosenbaum is a circuit judge who sits on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  Her office is in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Robin is a member of the FJA Executive Board and chairs the FJA Education Committee.

Judge Mary Stenson Scriven graduated cum laude from Duke University in 1983 with a B.A. degree in Political Science and, in 1987, with high honors from Florida State University College of Law.

Judge Scriven is a former shareholder with the law firm of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., where she practiced for ten years in the Corporate Litigation and Trade Regulation Department. Judge Scriven is admitted to practice in the state of Florida, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court.

Judge Scriven was appointed by President George W. Bush, with bipartisan support of former Senators Bill Nelson and Mel Martinez, to serve as a United States District Judge for the Middle District of Florida on September 30, 2008. She was appointed to serve as Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida in December 19, 1997, and she was reappointed for a second term commencing December 15, 2005. She is the first African-American woman to serve in any capacity on the federal court in the state of Florida and the second to serve on the federal court in the Eleventh Circuit. She was the first African-American woman to sit by designation on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on the invitation of the Chief Judge.

From December 1996 through December 1997, Judge Scriven served as an Associate Professor of Law at Stetson University College of Law. Judge Scriven taught in the areas of Commercial Law, teaching Remedies, Legal Malpractice, Banking Law and Contracts. She frequently lectures in trial advocacy, pretrial procedure and in commercial and criminal law courses and seminars. She is a former faculty member with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy Training and has also served as a guest faculty member in a five-day Masters Program for Trial Advocacy, Nottingham Law Institute, Nottingham, England. In May 2006, Judge Scriven received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree, L.L.D., from Stetson University College of Law.

Judge Scriven is also very active in community and professional organizations. She currently serves as Chairperson of the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Council’s Pattern Jury Instruction Committee. She was recently elected by the Florida federal judges of the Eleventh Circuit to serve as the Florida at-large board member to the Federal Judges Association. Before being appointed to the district court, she was elected the first African-American woman President-Elect of the Federal Magistrate Judges Association. She is a past Chairperson of the Board of the Spring of Tampa Bay, the only certified shelter and assistance facility for battered spouses and their children in the Tampa Bay area. She served as Chairperson of the Judicial Education Committee of the Middle District of Florida. She is a Past President of the Hillsborough Association for Women Lawyers. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Hillsborough County Bar Foundation, the charitable arm of the Hillsborough County Bar Association. She has previously served on the Executive Board of Directors of the Hillsborough County Bar Association and the George Edgecomb Bar Association and on the Boards of Directors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Tampa and the Florida Bar Foundation. Judge Scriven has also been a member of the National Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Florida Bar and the Florida Association for Women Lawyers. She is a member of the Athena Society. She is a past member of Gamma Theta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. She is a member of the Leadership Tampa Class of 1994 and the Leadership Florida Class of 1995. She is a former Trustee for the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center and is a past President of the J. Clifford Cheatwood Inn of Court.