Marian Blank Horn
Horn in 2022
Senior Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims
Assumed office
March 9, 2018
In office
April 13, 2001 – March 10, 2003
Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims
In office
March 10, 2003 – March 9, 2018
Appointed byGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byherself
Succeeded byStephen S. Schwartz
In office
April 14, 1986 – April 13, 2001
Appointed byRonald Reagan
Preceded byAlex Kozinski
Succeeded byherself
Personal details
Born1943 (age 80–81)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma materBarnard College (AB)
Fordham University (JD)

Marian Blank Horn (born 1943) is a senior judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Early life, education, and career

Judge Horn with her husband Robert Horn, Marine Corps counsel Robert Hogue and Justice Neil Gorsuch in 2017

Born in New York City,[1] Horn attended the Fieldston School[1] and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College,[2] and a Juris Doctor from the Fordham University School of Law,[2] in 1969. She was an assistant district attorney in Bronx County, New York, and then entered private practice as a litigator with the firm of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn.[1]

From 1973 to 1975, Horn was a project manager for a Study of Alternatives to Conventional Criminal Adjudication, and an adjunct professor at American University's Washington College of Law.[2] She then joined the Office of General Counsel for the Department of Energy/Federal Energy Administration, and in 1979 became the Office's deputy assistant general counsel for Financial Incentives, Office of General Counsel.[2]

From 1981 to 1986, she worked in the United States Department of the Interior, where she assisted the Associate Solicitor and helped administer the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977.[3] In 1985, Horn was promoted to principal deputy solicitor, where she supervised all the Regional and Field Offices of the Solicitor's Office in the Department and acted as the chief lawyer to the Secretary and Under Secretary of the Department of the Interior.[3]

Federal judicial service

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan appointed Horn as judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. She was reappointed by President George W. Bush in 2003 and assumed senior status on March 9, 2018.[2]

Personal life

Judge Horn is the daughter of Werner and Mady Blank.[4] Her father was a German judge removed from the bench in Berlin by the Nazis for being Jewish.[5] She was married to Robert J. Horn, a lawyer who was the founding chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association, until his death in February 2020.[6] They have three daughters.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Joint Committee on Printing, Official Congressional Directory, 2009-2010: 111th Congress, p. 864-65.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Biography of Marian Blank Horn from the United States Court of Federal Claims.
  3. 1 2 Orrin Hatch, Nomination of Marian Blank Horn, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims (March 3, 2003).
  4. 1 2 Official Congressional Directory, 2015-2016: 114th Congress. U.S. Government Publishing Office. p. 879.
  5. ↑ "Federal judge shares father's story at Lawyers Without Rights event". American Bar Association. 19 September 2016. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  6. ↑ "In Memoriam: RLNA Founding Chair Bob Horn". Republican National Lawyers Association. 2 March 2020. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
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