Kimberly Ann Moore (née Pace; born June 15, 1968) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Kimberly Ann Moore
Federal Circuit Clerk/Executive
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Born 1968 in Baltimore, MD
FJC ID: 3129
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 11/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 197/year
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals · 2006–Federal Circuit Clerk/Executive · 2006–
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
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2021–present
Faculty · 2000–2006- ↳associate professor of law · 2000–2004
- ↳professor of law · 2004–2006
- Private practice, Washington, D.C.2000–2003
Assistant professor of law · 1999–2000- Chicago-Kent College of LawAssistant professor of law and associate director · 1997–1999
Law clerk , Hon. Glenn L. Archer · 1995–1997- Private practice, Los Angeles, California1994–1995
Appointments
- 2006–present
- 2006–present · Appointed by George W. Bush (Republican)
Education
J.D. · 1994- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM.S. · 1991
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyB.S. · 1990