Judge Thomas B. Griffith was appointed to the D.C. Circuit in 2005 after being confirmed by the Senate with broad bipartisan support. He served on the DC Circuit until 2020. Currently, he is a Fellow at the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University, a Lecturer on Law at Harvard and Stanford Law Schools, Special Counsel at the law firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth, and a member of the Board of Directors of Interfaith America. A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Judge Griffith began his legal career in private practice before serving as Senate Legal Counsel, the nonpartisan chief legal officer of the United States Senate. After a brief return to private practice, Judge Griffith served for five years as General Counsel of Brigham Young University. President Joe Biden appointed Judge Griffith to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court, and Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed him to the Data Protection Review Court within the Department of Justice. He has long been active in rule of law projects in Eastern Europe and is a member of the Advisory Group of Experts, created by the government of Ukraine to assist in the appointment of judges to that nation's constitutional court. Judge Griffith's writing, teaching, and speaking of late focus on the importance of civic charity to American democracy.