The Hon.

David

J.

Barron

David J. Barron became the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in April of 2022. After graduating from Harvard College, he worked as a newspaper reporter before attending Harvard Law School. Chief Judge Barron clerked for Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and for Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court. He then worked as an attorney advisor for the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice during the Clinton Administration before joining the faculty at Harvard Law School. He rejoined the Justice Department as Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel from 2009 to 2010 before returning to Harvard Law School as the S. William Green Professor of Public Law. He was appointed to the First Circuit in 2014. 

Chief Judge Barron continues to teach at Harvard Law School as the Louis D. Brandeis Visiting Professor of Law. He is the co-editor of casebooks on both administrative and local government law. Among his other publications are City Bound, with Jerry Frug, and Waging War, which won the 2017 Colby Award. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute.