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Monday, January 03, 2011
Courts - "Muncie native Robert Wilkins has been approved as a U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia"
From a Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology news release:
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The new year has brought a new position for Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology alumnus and Muncie native Robert Wilkins - a spot on the judicial bench of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. * * *Wilkins, a 1986 chemical engineering alumnus, has been a partner at the Washington, D.C., law firm Venable since 2002, specializing in corporate defense/white collar, technology and commercial litigation practice. From 1990 to 2002, he worked for the D.C. Public Defender Service, was recognized as one of "90 Greatest Washington Lawyers of the Last 30 years" by Legal Times and one of the "40 under 40 most successful young litigators in America" by the National Law Journal. In addition, Washingtonian magazine named him one of the city's top criminal defense lawyers.
Wilkins was the lead plaintiff in Wilkins, et al. v. State of Maryland, winning a landmark settlement in a "racial profiling" case. It inspired data collection requirements in an executive order and legislative proposals in Congress and states all over the country.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 3, 2011 01:17 PM
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