Ryan Holte '08 confirmed as United States Court of Federal Claims judge

The United States Senate voted last week to confirm the appointment of Ryan T. Holte ’08 to the United States Court of Federal Claims. He will serve a 15-year term on the Washington, D.C.-based court, which hears monetary claims filed against the federal government.

Holte, the David L. Brennan Associate Professor of Law and director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Technology at the University of Akron, was nominated to the court by President Donald Trump. The nomination received bipartisan support in the Senate.

Before entering academia, Holte clerked for Judge Loren A. Smith on the United States Court of Federal Claims and Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He also practiced as a litigation attorney at the United States Federal Trade Commission, an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at the Jones Day law firm, and a patent prosecutor at the Finnegan law firm.