Randall Ray Rader

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Judge Randall R. Rader (1949- ) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He obtained a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University in 1974 and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School in 1978. President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the United States Court of Federal Claims in 1988. President George H. W. Bush then elevated him to the Federal Circuit in 1990.

While on the appellate bench, Judge Rader has also served actively as an educator. He has taught patent law and advanced intellectual property courses at the University of Virginia School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC.,The Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC. Judge Rader is co-author of a casebook on patent law used at over sixty-five law schools. He has received many awards, including the J. Wm. Fulbright Award for Distinguished Public Service, 2000. As an appellate judge, Judge Rader has also led or participated in over sixty delegations to foreign nations, usually to teach rule of law or intellectual property concepts in developing nations.

Before his appointment to the bench, Judge Rader served members of the House of Representatives (1975 - 1980) and as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee (1980 - 1988). While counsel to the Judiciary Committee, he was Chief Counsel or Minority Chief Counsel for the Subcommittee on the Constitution and the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights.

Rader is a Latter-day Saint. He has served as a ward Young Men president among other callings. He and his wife Sheryl have four children.^[1]

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• Members of the Advisory Council to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, compilers (2004). The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit: A History, 1990 - 2002. Washington, D.C.: The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.