The Hon. Chad Andrew Readler

Judge Readler earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Michigan, and served as a law clerk to Judge Alan Norris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Judge Readler then joined the international law firm Jones Day, eventually spending ten years as a partner in the firm’s Issues and Appeals Practice Group. While at Jones Day, Judge Readler appeared most frequently in the Supreme Court of Ohio and the Sixth Circuit. Judge Readler also successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court in McQuiggin v. Perkins on behalf of an inmate claiming actual innocence, and he represented capital defendants before the Tenth Circuit and the Supreme Court of Ohio.  Judge Readler traveled to Nairobi with Lawyers Without Borders to train Kenyan lawyers in prosecuting domestic violence cases, has visited Molodva to train Moldovan judges on civil litigation, and was a recipient of the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship awarded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. Judge Readler later served as Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice from 2017 to 2019. In that role, Judge Readler led and supervised over 1,000 lawyers in the Department’s largest litigating division, briefing and arguing high-profile cases significant to the Administration and the Department.  In March 2019, Judge Readler was confirmed to serve as a Circuit Judge on the Sixth Circuit.  In true bi-partisan fashion, Judge Readler teaches a Presidential Powers seminar at both the Ohio State University and the University of Michigan.