Barry Glen Silverman (born October 11, 1951) is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 13/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 149/year
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1998–
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa CountyJudge · 1984–1995
- Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa CountyCommissioner · 1979–1984
- Maricopa County, ArizonaDeputy county attorney · 1977–1979
- Phoenix, ArizonaAssistant city prosecutor · 1976–1977
Appointments
1998–2016 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
- Arizona State University College of Law (now Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law)J.D. · 1976
- Arizona State UniversityB.A. · 1973