Haldane Robert Mayer (born February 21, 1941) is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Haldane Robert Mayer
Federal Circuit Clerk/Executive
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Born 1941 in Buffalo, NY
FJC ID: 1510
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 36/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 92/year
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals · 1987–2010Federal Circuit Clerk/Executive · 1987–
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
Adjunct professor · 1975–1977, 1992–present- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 1998–2004
- U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board1981–1982
- ↳deputy special counsel · 1981–1982
- ↳acting special counsel · 1982
- Private practice, Washington, D.C.1980–1981
- Chief Justice of the United States Warren BurgerSpecial assistant · 1977–1980
- Private practice, Charlottesville, Virginia1975–1977
U.S. Army1963–1975
Law clerk , Hon. John D. Butzner · 1971–1972
Appointments
- 1987–2010
1987–2010 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
- Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School
- William and Mary Law SchoolJ.D. · 1971
- U.S. Military AcademyB.S. · 1963