PERSON: Justin Walker
Employer
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Position
Judge
Biography
Justin Reed Walker (born 1982) is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2020 as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He previously was a U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky from 2019 to 2020.
Walker was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He was named after Justin Hayward, the front man for the musical group The Moody Blues. His father is Terry Martin Walker, a real estate appraiser. His mother, Deborah, and father divorced in 1985 after nine years of marriage. Walker says that he was raised by a “a single working mom” who “made indescribable sacrifices to provide me, the first in my family to graduate from college, with the opportunities she didn’t have herself.” Terry Walker claims to have also raised Justin, but Justin cut ties from his father once he moved to college. The relationship is still estranged despite attempts from Terry Walker. His step-grandfather, Norton Cohen, was president of the Acme Paper Stock Company and a prominent member of Louisville’s Jewish community, while his maternal grandfather, Frank R. Metts, was a millionaire real estate broker who The New York Times characterized as a “power broker in Kentucky.”
Walker grew up in a Democratic household, though his mother had supported Republican Mitch McConnell when Walker was 8 years old. Walker became active in Republican politics at an early age. While a student at Louisville’s St. Xavier High School, Walker’s step-grandfather arranged to have him interview Mitch McConnell for a class paper, and Walker later interned for McConnell as a college student.
After high school, Walker studied political science at Duke University, graduating in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa membership. In 2003, Walker studied at New College, Oxford. From 2005 to 2006, Walker was a speechwriter for U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was a notes editor on the Harvard Law Review. He graduated in 2009 with a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude.
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Walker was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He was named after Justin Hayward, the front man for the musical group The Moody Blues. His father is Terry Martin Walker, a real estate appraiser. His mother, Deborah, and father divorced in 1985 after nine years of marriage. Walker says that he was raised by a “a single working mom” who “made indescribable sacrifices to provide me, the first in my family to graduate from college, with the opportunities she didn’t have herself.” Terry Walker claims to have also raised Justin, but Justin cut ties from his father once he moved to college. The relationship is still estranged despite attempts from Terry Walker. His step-grandfather, Norton Cohen, was president of the Acme Paper Stock Company and a prominent member of Louisville’s Jewish community, while his maternal grandfather, Frank R. Metts, was a millionaire real estate broker who The New York Times characterized as a “power broker in Kentucky.”
Walker grew up in a Democratic household, though his mother had supported Republican Mitch McConnell when Walker was 8 years old. Walker became active in Republican politics at an early age. While a student at Louisville’s St. Xavier High School, Walker’s step-grandfather arranged to have him interview Mitch McConnell for a class paper, and Walker later interned for McConnell as a college student.
After high school, Walker studied political science at Duke University, graduating in 2004 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa membership. In 2003, Walker studied at New College, Oxford. From 2005 to 2006, Walker was a speechwriter for U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was a notes editor on the Harvard Law Review. He graduated in 2009 with a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude.
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