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# Tamika Renee Montgomery-Reeves

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · U.S. Circuit Judge

## Profile

- Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- State: National federal courts
- Role: U.S. Circuit Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-25

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Biography

### Professional career

- Justice, Delaware Supreme Court (2019–2023) — first African‐American justice on the court
- Adjunct professor, Widener University Delaware School of Law, 2022
- Adjunct professor, Seattle University School of Law, 2018
- Adjunct professor, University of Georgia School of Law, 2015, 2017
- Private practice: Weil Gotshal & Manges, New York City (2007–2011) — corporate governance & securities litigation Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Wilmington, DE (2011–2015) — corporate governance & commercial litigation
- Law clerk, Hon. William B. Chandler III, Delaware Court of Chancery, 2006-2007
- Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

### Education

- University of Georgia School of Law — J.D. (2006)
- (magna cum laude), University of Mississippi — B.A. (2003)

### Additional information

- Commissioned: February 7, 2023
- Senate confirmation: December 12, 2022 (vote 53–35)
- While on the Delaware Supreme Court, Montgomery‐Reeves authored a 2021 majority opinion holding that certain Senate records submitted to the University of Delaware archives were not subject to Delaware’s Freedom of Information Act.
- Vice chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery, 2015-2019
- Private practice, Wilmington, Delaware, 2011-2015
- Date of birth: 1981-04-29
- Predecessor: Thomas L. Ambro
- In summary: Tamika Renee Montgomery‐Reeves is a highly experienced jurist with a background in corporate law, Delaware’s highest court, and now the federal appellate bench, recognized for her legal scholarship and judicial service.
- Birth place: Jackson

## 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/12941021)
- [Official roster](https://www.fjc.gov/node/12941021)
- [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/node/12941021)
- [Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-appellate-procedure)
- [Judge Tamika Renee Montgomery-Reeves](https://www.fjc.gov/node/12941021)
- [Wikidata: Tamika Montgomery-Reeves](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q74604225)

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