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Barbara Jacobs Rothstein (born 1939) is a Senior United States district judge of the
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.


Life and career

Born in
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,
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, Rothstein received a
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degree from
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in 1960 and a
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from
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in 1966. She was in private practice in
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,
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from 1966 to 1968. She worked for the Washington State Attorney General's Office from 1968 to 1977, where she worked as assistant attorney general and chief trial attorney for the Consumer Protection and
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Division. She was also an adjunct professor at the
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from 1975 to 1977. She was a judge of the Superior Court of Washington in
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,
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from 1977 to 1980.


Federal judicial service

On December 3, 1979, Rothstein was nominated by President
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to a new seat on the
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created by 92 Stat. 1629; She was confirmed by the
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on February 20, 1980, and received her commission the same day. She served as Chief Judge from 1987 to 1994. From 2003 to 2011, she was the Director of the
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. She assumed
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on September 1, 2011, and is currently serving by designation on the
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.


Notable case

In February 2020, Rothstein, sitting by designation with the 11th Circuit in Florida, was a member of a 3-judge panel in ''Jones et al. v. DeSantis'', a 2020 voting rights case. 2018 Florida Amendment 4 permitted former felons to vote, however DeSantis signed a law that required former felons to pay all legal fees before being eligible to vote again, despite some of them not knowing how much they owed. District judge
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struck down that law, and the panel kept the injunction against the law. However, the panel was reversed in a sharply divided en banc decision that September.


See also

*
List of Jewish American jurists This is a list of notable Jewish American jurists. For other famous Jewish Americans, see Lists of American Jews. Supreme Court of the United States Federal judges Appellate judges * Robert E. Bacharach, Judge of the United States Court o ...


References

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