Jane A. Restani is a Senior Judge of the United States Court of International Trade.
Education
She graduated first in her class in 1966 from Mercy High School (San Francisco). She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 in political science, cum laude, from the, where she was a member of the Tower and Flame Honor Society. She received teaching credentials in 1970 from the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1973, she received her Juris Doctorate (fifth in her class) at the University of California, Davis School of Law.
She was a law review staff writer in her second year, and articles editor in her third. She was a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Kappa Phi.
Career
She was appointed to the Court on November 16, 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. She served as chief judge of the Court from 2003 to 2010. She was admitted to practice law in California in 1973 and began her legal career in the Civil Division of the Justice Department, where she served as a trial attorney from 1973 to 1976.
She served as assistant chief of the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil Division from 1976 to 1980.
She served as Director of the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil Division from 1980 to 1983. On November 3, 1983, President Reagan nominated Restani to serve as a Judge for the United States Court of International Trade, to the seat vacated by Judge Herbert North. Maletz.
She was confirmed by the Senate on November 15, 1983 and received her commission the following day. She assumed senior status on March 1, 2015.
Politics
She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 in political science, cum laude, from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a member of the Tower and Flame Honor Society. She was a law review staff writer in her second year, and articles editor in her third.
Membership
She was a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Kappa Phi.