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Chad Readler is a lecturer at the University of Michigan Law School and serves as a judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. He began his legal career at the international law firm Jones Day, where he spent ten years as a partner in the firm's issues appeals practice group. During his tenure at Jones Day, he appeared before the Supreme Court and the Ohio Court of Appeals and successfully argued the case of McQuiggin v. Perkins, on behalf of an inmate claiming actual innocence. Judge Readler has also been involved in international training initiatives, traveling to Nairobi with Lawyers Without Borders to train Kenyan lawyers on prosecuting domestic violence cases, and visiting Moldova to train judges on civil litigation. He has received the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship awarded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the acting assistant attorney general of the Civil Division at the Department of Justice, where he supervised over a thousand lawyers and managed high-profile cases. In March 2019, Judge Readler was confirmed as a judge on the Sixth Circuit. He teaches a seminar on presidential powers at both Ohio State University and the University of Michigan.
University of Michigan Law School • Ann Arbor, MI
Lectures on legal topics, focusing on presidential powers.
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals • Detroit, MI
Presides over cases in the Sixth Circuit, focusing on appellate law.
U.S. Department of Justice • Washington, DC
Led the Civil Division, managing significant litigation.
Administered by University of Michigan Law School; exact department name 'Department of Law' refers to the LLM program.