Veronica S. Rossman

Veronica Sophia Rossman[1][2] (née Parkansky, born 1972) is a Russian-born American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

[5][6] [7] Rossman began her legal career as a law clerk for Chief Justice A. William Maupin on the Nevada Supreme Court from 1997 to 1998.

From 2007 to 2008, she was a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and from 2008 to 2010 was a visiting professor at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law.

From 2015 to 2017 she served as appellate division chief within the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Districts of Colorado and Wyoming and from 2010 to 2015 she served as an assistant federal public defender in the appellate division of the same office.

[5] On May 12, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Rossman to serve as a United States circuit judge for the Tenth Circuit to the seat vacated by Judge Carlos F. Lucero, who assumed senior status on February 1, 2021.