Education
Williams College; University of Virginia School of Law.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Paul Michel
Edit ProfileCareer
Michel received a Bachelor of Arts in 1963 from Williams College and a Juris Doctor in 1966 from the University of Virginia. He was admitted to practice in Pennsylvania in 1967, in United States. district court in 1968, in United States. circuit court and before the United States. Supreme Court in 1969. He was assistant district attorney in the Office of the Deputy District Attorney for Investigations in Philadelphia from 1966 to 1974, as well as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Reserve from 1966 to 1972.
From 1974 to 1975 he was the Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and from 1975 to 1976 was assistant counsel to the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
He then became the deputy chief and Koreagate prosecutor for the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice from 1976 to 1978. Michel became the associate deputy United States. attorney general in 1978, and in 1981 became counsel and administrative assistant to United States. Senator Arlen Specter until his judicial appointment.
He has also been adjunct faculty at the George Washington University Law School and John Marshall Law School since 1991. Michel was nominated to the Federal Circuit by President Ronald Reagan on December 19, 1987 to fill a seat vacated by Judge Phillip Benjamin Baldwin.
The Senate confirmed Michel"s nomination on February 29, 1988, and he assumed the office on March 8, 1988.
Michel retired on May 31, 2010. Judge Randall Ray Rader succeeded him as chief judge. Michel has been married to Brooke England since 2004.
He has two adult children.
Works
Other Work
