Education
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore in 1962 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago in 1965, one of six women in her class. She received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from in May 2006.
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore in 1962 and her Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago in 1965, one of six women in her class. She received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from in May 2006.
Schroeder practiced as a trial attorney with the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1965 until 1969. She served as a law clerk to Justice Jesse Addison Udall of the Arizona Supreme Court in 1970. She joined the law firm of Lewis & Roca in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1971 and became a partner in 1973.
She was appointed to the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1975 and served until 1979, when she was nominated by President Jimmy Carter and appointed to the Ninth Circuit.
She served as Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit from 2000 to 2007, the first woman to hold that position. Schroeder took senior status on January 1, 2012.
Schroeder was elected to the American Law Institute in 1974 and was elected to the ALI Council in 1993. She served as an Adviser on the Restatement Third of Agency and currently serves as an Adviser on the Restatement Third, The Law of Consumer Contracts and Principles of Government Ethics.
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