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By Jeffrey S. Ginsberg and Joseph Mercadante
November 29, 2011

Taranto Is President Obama's Choice for Federal Circuit

President Obama has nominated appellate litigator Richard G. Taranto of the Washington, DC, firm Farr & Taranto to fill the final vacant seat on the Federal Circuit. Taranto graduated from Pomona College in 1977 and Yale Law School in 1981. After law school, he clerked for Judge Abraham D. Sofaer of the Southern District of New York, Judge Robert H. Bork of the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

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