--- title: "Veronica Sophia Rossman | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/veronica-sophia-rossman" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-07" --- # Veronica Sophia Rossman U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · U.S. Circuit Judge ## Profile - Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth 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 - Judge, Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 2021-present - Veronica Sophia Rossman (née Parkansky, born 1972) is an American jurist serving as a United States Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit since September 28, 2021 - Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Districts of Colorado and Wyoming, 2002-2003, 2010-2021; assistant federal public defender, 2002-2003,2010-2015; chief of appeals, 2015-2017; supervisory assistant federal public defender, 2015-2021; senior counsel, 2017-2021 - Visiting Professor, University of Denver, Denver, CO, 2008-2010 - University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2008-2010; visiting lawyering process professor, 2008-2009; visiting assistant professor, 2009-2010 - Staff attorney, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2007-2008 - Litigation associate at Morrison & Foerster, Denver (1998–2002) - Law clerk, Hon. A. William Maupin, Supreme Court of Nevada, 1997-1998 - Law clerk to Chief Justice A. William Maupin, Nevada Supreme Court (1997–1998) - Law Clerk to the Hon. A. William Maupin, Nevada Supreme Court, Carson City, NV, 1997-1988 - The first former federal public defender to sit on the Tenth Circuit at the time of her confirmation ### Education - University of California, Hastings College of the Law (now UC College of the Law, San Francisco) in — J.D. (1997) - Columbia University in the City of New York — B.A. (1993) ### Additional information - On May 12, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Rossman to replace Judge Carlos F. Lucero, who had assumed senior status in February 2021. - Senate Judiciary Committee: Favorably reported July 15, 2021 (12–10) - Assistant Federal Public Defender, Trial Division, Districts of Colorado and Wyoming, 2010-2015 - Practitioner, Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, San Francisco, CA, 2007-2008 - Practitioner, Mastbaum & Moffat, Denver, CO, 2004-2005 - Private practice, Denver, Colorado, 2001-2002, 2004-2005 - Assistant Federal Defender, Trial Division, Districts of Colorado and Wyoming, 2002-2003 - Practitioner, Morrison & Foerster, LLP, 1998-2002 - Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1998-2001 - Date of birth: 1972-01-01 - Rossman was born Veronica Sophia Parkansky in Moscow, Soviet Union, and is of Jewish heritage. - Her parents immigrated to the U.S. as political and religious refugees when she was a child. - Birth place: Moscow, Soviet Union ## 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/10749706) - [Official roster](https://www.fjc.gov/node/10749706) - [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/node/10749706) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/15364/veronica-sophia-rossman/) - [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/15364/veronica-sophia-rossman/) - [Judge Veronica Sophia Rossman](https://www.fjc.gov/node/10749706) - [Wikidata: Veronica S. 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