Background
The son of noted women"s suffragist and psychologist Ruth Belcher Dyk, and Walter Dyk who studied and wrote about the Navajo Indians. Dyk was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Education
From 1963 until 1964, Dyk completed a one-year assignment with the United States Department of Justice as Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division.
Career
Dyk clerked for retired United States Supreme Court Justices Stanley Reed and Harold Burton in 1961 and 1962, and clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1962-1963. Dyk worked in private practice as an attorney in Washington, District of Columbia from 1964 until 2000, first with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and later with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. He was a lecturer at the Georgetown University Law Center in 1983, 1986, and 1989, a visiting professor and lecturer at the University of Virginia Law School from 1984 to 1985 and from 1987 to 1988, and was also a lecturer at Yale Law School in 1986, 1987, and 1989.
One case saw Dyk arguing for the release to the public of the cockpit recordings of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
In an August 4, 1997 article in the Washington Post, Dyk was identified as one of "only a handful of repeat performers considered heavyweights" in representing clients before the United States. Supreme Court. Dyk also made the news in the early and mid-1990s for his desire to open federal courtrooms to news media organizations.
After the Judicial Conference of the United States voted on September 20, 1994 to keep cameras out of federal courtrooms by ending a pilot program that had allowed cameras at civil trials and appeals in eight courts, Dyk told the Washington Post that "they appear to have slammed the door on a very important experiment, which, if it had been expanded, would have benefited people throughout the country."
On April 6, 1998, President Bill Clinton nominated Dyk to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated by Glenn L. Archer, Junior. With the United States. Senate controlled by Republicans, Dyk"s nomination languished for more than two years.
The delay was due in part to some Republican senators" views that the Federal Circuit did not need another judge.
Dyk was confirmed to his federal circuit seat by the United States. Senate by a 74-25 vote on May 24, 2000. He received his commission on May 25, 2000. Dyk"s wife, Sally Katzen, was the Deputy Director for Management, Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton administration.
Membership
He earned his bachelor"s degree cum laude from Harvard College in 1958, and earned his law degree magna cum laude in 1961 from the Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the law review.
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