--- title: "Mary Murphy Schroeder | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/mary-murphy-schroeder" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-09" --- # Mary Murphy Schroeder U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · U.S. Circuit Judge ## Profile - Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - State: National federal courts - Role: U.S. Circuit Judge - Service status: senior - Last verified: 2026-07-25 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## Biography ### Professional career - Judge, Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1979-2011 - Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit from 2000 to 2007 — the first woman to hold that role - "Judge Mary M. Schroeder: Twenty Years." Arizona State Law Journal 31 (Fall 1999): 705-35 - Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One, 1975-1979 - Law clerk to Justice Jesse A. Udall, Arizona Supreme Court (1969–1970) - Trial attorney, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1965-1969 - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit - In summary: Judge Mary Murphy Schroeder is a distinguished jurist with a career spanning federal and state appellate service, academic work, and leadership in legal scholarship, now continuing as an active senior judge on the Ninth Circuit ### Education - B.A. — Swarthmore College and her J.D. in 1965 from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was one of six women in her class (1962) ### Additional information - Lecturer, Duke University, 1995-present - Visiting instructor, Arizona State University Law School, 1978-present - She has received multiple honors, including the American Law Institute’s John Minor Wisdom Award (2023) and the Arizona State Bar Association’s James A. Garfield Award. - Senior status assumed December 31, 2011, but remains active in hearing cases - Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 2001-2007 - She later received an honorary Doctor of Laws from Swarthmore in 2006. - Elected to the American Law Institute in 1974 and served on its Council from 1993, contributing to major restatements including Agency, Consumer Contracts, and Government Ethics. - Appointed by President Jimmy Carter on May 3, 1979, to the Ninth Circuit - Confirmed by the Senate on September 25, 1979; commissioned September 26, 1979 - Visiting instructor, Arizona State University Law School, 1975-1976, 1978 - Private practice, Phoenix, AZ, 1971-1975 - Private practice, Phoenix, Arizona, 1971-1975 - Practitioner, 1974-1974 - Date of birth: 1940-12-04 - Schroeder has authored and participated in numerous opinions covering environmental law, intellectual property, civil rights, and criminal procedure. - Recent cases include United States v. - United States federal judge - Birth place: Boulder, CO ## Before you appear - Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed. - Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance. - Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding. ## Courtroom Rules ### appellate oral argument Scope: 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. Evidence excerpt: 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 unnecessary [Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-appellate-procedure) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ## Sources - [Official profile](https://www.fjc.gov/node/1387476) - [Official roster](https://www.fjc.gov/node/1387476) - [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/node/1387476) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/2871/mary-murphy-schroeder/) - [Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-appellate-procedure) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/2871/mary-murphy-schroeder/) - [Judge Mary Murphy Schroeder](https://www.fjc.gov/node/1387476) - [Wikidata: Mary Schroeder](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6780196) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/mary-murphy-schroeder", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/mary-murphy-schroeder", "name": "Mary Murphy Schroeder | KnowJudges", "description": "Mary Murphy Schroeder, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. 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