Mary Murphy Schroeder (born December 4, 1940) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Mary Murphy Schroeder
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Born 1940 in Boulder, CO
FJC ID: 2119
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 18/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 256/year
Court of Appeals of Arizona · 1975–1979Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1979–2011
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 · 2001–2007
Lecturer · 1995- Arizona Court of Appeals, Division OneJudge · 1975–1979
- Arizona State University Law SchoolVisiting instructor · 1975–1976, 1978
- Private practice, Phoenix, Arizona1971–1975
- Arizona Supreme CourtLaw clerk , Hon. Jesse A. Udall · 1969–1970
Civil Division, U.S. Department of JusticeTrial attorney · 1965–1969
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth CircuitChief Judge1979–2011 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)- 1975–1979
Education
- Swarthmore Collegeba
J.D. · 1965- Swarthmore CollegeB.A. · 1962