M. Margaret McKeown
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Judge M. Margaret McKeown (born May 11, 1951, in Casper, Wyoming) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Judge McKeown received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wyoming in 1972, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and her juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1975. She has also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Georgetown and studied at the University of Madrid. Judge McKeown is an adjunct professor at the University of Washington Law School and at the University of San Diego School of Law. She is best known in academia for her work in intellectual property law.
The first female partner with the law firm of Perkins Coie in Seattle, Washington, and Washington, DC, Judge McKeown served in the White House under President Jimmy Carter. She was appointed to her current seat by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
