Jane Richards Roth

[1] At the time of her matriculation to Harvard Law School in 1962, Roth was one of 25 women in a class of 700-plus men.

[1] Roth worked as a typist and administrative assistant in the United States Foreign Service from 1956 to 1962.

[1] She was in private practice in Wilmington, Delaware from 1965 to 1985, with the law firm of Richards, Layton & Finger.

[2] Roth was nominated by President George H. W. Bush on May 16, 1991, to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated by Judge Collins J. Seitz.

[4] Roth's former law clerks include Chris Coons, United States Senator from Delaware; Lisa Monaco, United States Deputy Attorney General and former United States Homeland Security Advisor; Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Professor at Harvard Law School and Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Adam J. Levitin, Professor at Georgetown University Law Center; Ingrid Wuerth, Professor at Vanderbilt Law School; J. Travis Laster, Vice Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery; Charles S. Crompton, Judge of the San Francisco Superior Court; Sharon Bradford Franklin, Chair of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board; and Matthew Ahn, Visiting Professor at Cleveland State University College of Law; Seth Barrett Tillman, Associate Professor of Law at Maynooth University.