Holly A. Thomas

Appointed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals by Pres. Joseph Biden, confirmed January 2022; appointed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown, Nov. 29, 2018; deputy director, executive programs, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Los Angeles, 2016-18; special counsel, solicitor general, New York attorney general's office, 2015-16; senior attorney, appellate section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington D.C., 2010-15; assistant counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. , New York, 2005-10 She joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. as a Liman fellow in 2005, then stayed on as assistant counsel there until 2010. Thomas worked five years as a senior appellate attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and one year as special counsel to the solicitor general at the New York state attorney general's office.

Yale Law School