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Bridget Shelton Bade
Judge · U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.
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Biography and careerSource-attributed professional, judicial, and education record
Applicable Court Rules & Procedures1 sourced item · labeled by scope
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Biography
Professional career
- Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Arizona, 2006-2012
- Private practice, Phoenix, AZ, 1995-2006
- Trial attorney, Environmental Torts Litigation Section, U.S. Department of Justice, 1991-1995
Judicial service
- Law Clerk, Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1990-1991
- Magistrate, District Court, D. Arizona, 2012-2019
- Judge, Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2019-present
- Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Education
- Arizona State University-Tempe · B.A., 1987
- Arizona State University-Tempe · J.D., 1989
- Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
- McClintock High School
Personal record
Born 1965 · Phoenix, AZ
Applicable Court Rules & Procedures
Oral argument
Courtwide
In federal courts of appeals, oral argument is allowed unless a three-judge panel unanimously finds one of Rule 34's specified grounds for dispensing with it; the clerk provides the date, time, place, and time allocation.
Oral argument must be allowed in every case unless a panel of three judges who have examined the briefs and record unanimously agrees that oral argument is unnecessaryFederal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument ↗
Sources
Federal Judicial Center biography
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View CourtListener judicial biographical directory ↗Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument
Courtwide source · HTML · checked July 26, 2026
View Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument ↗