Delissa A. Ridgway

Delissa Ridgway
Judge of the United States Court of International Trade
Incumbent
Assumed office March 17, 1998
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Nicholas Tsoucalas
Personal details
Born	(1955-06-28) June 28, 1955 Kirksville, Missouri, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Missouri, Columbia Northeastern University

Delissa Anne Ridgway (born 1955) is a Judge for the United States Court of International Trade.

Biography

Ridgway was born in 1955 in Kirksville, Missouri. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1975 from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. She received a Juris Doctor in 1979 from the Northeastern University School of Law. She served as a law clerk for Judge June Lazenby Green of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in 1979. She served in private practice from 1979 to 1994. She worked as an adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law at American University from 1992 to 1994. She served as Chair of the United States Foreign Claims Settlement Commission from 1994 to 1998.

Trade Court service

On January 27, 1998, President Clinton nominated Ridgway to serve as a Judge for the United States Court of International Claims, to the seat vacated by Judge Nicholas Tsoucalas. She was confirmed by the Senate on March 11, 1998 and received her commission on March 17, 1998.

External links

• Delissa A. Ridgway at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
• Judge Delissa A. Ridgway Biography on U.S. Court of International Trade website