Karen J. Williams
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| Karen J. Williams | |
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| Assumed office 2007 |
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| Nominated by | Automatic succession |
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| Preceded by | William Walter Wilkins |
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Judge on Fourth Circuit
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| Assumed office 1992 |
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| Nominated by | George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Robert Foster Chapman |
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| Born | 1951 Orangeburg, SC |
Karen J. Williams, (born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1951) is Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She was appointed to that court by President George H.W. Bush on January 27, 1992, to a seat vacated by Judge Robert Foster Chapman. She was confirmed by the Senate on February 27, 1992, and received her commission on March 2, 1992.
Judge Williams received her B.A. at Columbia College in 1972, and her Juris Doctor at the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1980.
Williams has been mentioned as being on the list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court of the United States.
