Paul J. Watford

Paul J. Watford is as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasa- dena, Calif. He was nominated by President Obama on Oct. 17, 2011, and confirmed by the Senate on May 21, 2012. From 1994-95, Judge Watford clerked for Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Ap- peals for the Ninth Circuit, and from 1995-96 he served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1997-2000, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, and from 2001 until his appointment to the bench, he was in private practice at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles, where his practice focused primarily on appellate litigation. Judge Watford received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989 and his J.D. from UCLA School of Law in 1994.