Ryan Bounds

Ryan Wesley Bounds
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Education	Stanford University B.A. Yale Law School J.D.

Ryan Wesley Bounds is an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Oregon is a nominee to be a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Biography

Bounds earned his Bachelor of Arts in psychology and political science, with Honors and Distinction, from Stanford University and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where he was an editor on the Yale Law Journal and Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review. Early in his career Bounds served as a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff in the Office of Legal Policy at the United States Department of Justice. He also previously served as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, acting as the White House's primary policy expert on criminal and civil justice issues. Before becoming a special prosecutor he served as Special Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. He currently serves as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, where he prosecutes criminal cases on behalf of the United States.

Nomination to court of appeals

On September 7, 2017, President Trump nominated Bounds to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, to the seat vacated by Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain, who assumed senior status on December 31, 2016. His nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.