Senior United States District Judge Roslyn Silver has served as judge for the District of Arizona since her appointment in 1994. She became the first woman Chief Judge for the District of Arizona in 2011. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Silver was criminal division chief and acting First Assistant for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Phoenix. Judge Silver is a frequent lecturer and is published in many journals, such as: Arizona Attorney magazine, the ABA Journal, and the Maricopa Lawyer; and is a contributing editor to Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial, and the Rutter Group Practice Guide. She was chair of the Ninth Circuit Article III Judges Education Committee and the District of Arizona Local Rules Committee. She is a member of Charter 100 Arizona, the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, and the Board of Visitors for the University of Arizona Law School. She is also an Advisory Board Member of the Center for the Study of Law, Science, and Innovation at ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.