Mary Murphy Schroeder

Judge Mary Murphy Schroeder

Personal

Birthday:

1940

Birthplace:

Boulder, CO

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Female

Prior Employment:

Trial attorney, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1965-1969
Law clerk, Hon. Jesse A. Udall, Arizona Supreme Court, 1969-1970
Private practice, Phoenix, Arizona, 1971-1975
Visiting instructor, Arizona State University Law School, 1975-1976, 1978
Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, 1975-1979
Lecturer, Duke University, 1995

Education

Name of School:

Swarthmore College

Degree:

B.A.

Degree Year:

1962

Name of School - Second:

University of Chicago Law School

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America 's great cities, Chicago offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind. Learning is participatory. Chicago does not seek to impose a single viewpoint or style of thought on its students. Instead, our faculty exposes students to contrasting views, confident in students' abilities to choose their own paths.

Degree - Second:

J.D.

Degree Year - Second:

1965

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Court Name:

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

President Nominating:

Jimmy Carter

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

9/26/1979

Retirement from Active Service:

12/31/2011