Harry Edwards

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Harry Edwards
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Nonpartisan

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (senior status)
Tenure

2005 - Present

Years in position

19

Prior offices
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Education

Bachelor's

Cornell University, 1962

Law

University of Michigan Law, 1965

Personal
Birthplace
New York, N.Y.
Contact

Official website 

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Harry Thomas Edwards is an Article III federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He joined the court in 1980 after being nominated by President Jimmy Carter. Edwards served as chief judge from 1994 to 2001. He assumed senior status on November 3, 2005.[1]

Education

Edwards graduated from Cornell University with his bachelor's degree in 1962 and later earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1965.[1]

Professional career

  • 1978-1980: Chairman of the board, Amtrak
  • 1977-1980: Professor of law, the University of Michigan Law School
  • 1975-1977: Professor of law, Harvard Law School
  • 1971-1980: Labor arbitrator, National Labor Relations Board
  • 1970-1975: Professor of law, the University of Michigan Law School
  • 1965-1980: Attorney in private practice, Chicago, Illinois[1]

Judicial career

On the recommendation of the at-large Congressional delegation for the District of Columbia, Edwards was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on December 6, 1979, to a seat vacated by David Bazelon. Edwards was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 20, 1980, and received commission on February 20, 1980. Edwards served as the chief judge of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals from 1994 until 2001, and he assumed senior status on November 3, 2005.

Noteworthy cases

EPA regulations cannot vary by judicial circuit (2014)

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), because of an adverse Sixth Circuit ruling, loosened regulations under the Clean Air Act, but only in that judicial circuit. The circuit is composed of four states: Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.

In 2012, the Sixth Circuit ruled that the EPA’s definition of adjacent, a key term in the Clean Air Act that affects permitting of pollution sources, was unreasonable. After the ruling, the EPA changed its definition of adjacent to no longer include functional interrelatedness, but that change was expressly stated to apply only to the states in the Sixth Circuit. The National Environment Development Association sued the EPA for inconsistency and disadvantaging facilities outside of the Sixth Circuit.

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, comprised of Judges David Tatel, Harry Edwards (author of the court's opinion) and Stephen F. Williams, heard the case and ruled that the EPA must retain uniformity in its regulations and their application throughout the nation, regardless of an adverse judicial ruling. “Regional inconsistencies” are to be found and rectified through the use of “standardizing criteria, procedures, and policies.”[2] This mandate stems from the EPA’s own rules on consistency.

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See also

External links


Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Federal Judicial Center, "Harry Edwards Biography," accessed January 30, 2019
  2. ↑ Courthouse News, “D.C. Circuit Nixes Inconsistent Pollution Rules,” June 11, 2014
Political offices
Preceded by:
David Bazelon 		Circuit Court of Appeals for D.C.
1980–2005 		Succeeded by:
NA-seat dissolved




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