Richard Edward Neel Federico (born 1977)[1] is an American lawyer from Kansas who is serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

[1] Since 2002, Federico had served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps as a prosecutor and as a defense counsel from 2008 to 2015.

He has been a military judge for the Navy Reserve Trial Judiciary since 2019, and he served as an Appellate Defense Counsel from 2015 to 2019.

President Biden nominated Federico to the seat vacated by Judge Mary Beck Briscoe, who assumed senior status on March 15, 2021.

[4] During his confirmation hearing, he received push back from Republican Senators Josh Hawley and Marsha Blackburn over a client who he had represented as a public defender in 2018.