Education
Born in New York City, Horn attended the Fieldston School and received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University, and a Juris Doctor from the Fordham University School of Law, in 1969.
Born in New York City, Horn attended the Fieldston School and received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College, Columbia University, and a Juris Doctor from the Fordham University School of Law, in 1969.
She was an assistant district attorney in Bronx County, New York, and then entered private practice as a litigator with the firm of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn. From 1973 to 1975, Horn was a project manager for a Study of Alternatives to Conventional Criminal Adjudication, and an adjunct professor at American University"s Washington College of Law. She then joined the Office of General Counsel for the Department of Energy/Federal Energy Administration, and in 1979 became the Office"s deputy assistant general counsel for Financial Incentives, Office of General Counsel.
In 1985, Judge Horn was promoted to principal deputy solicitor, where she supervised all the Regional and Field Offices of the Solicitor" General’ s Office in the Department and acted as the chief lawyer to the Secretary and Under Secretary of the Department of the Interior.
