Milan Dale Smith Jr.

Judge Milan Dale Smith Jr.

Personal

Birthday:

1942

Birthplace:

Pendleton, OR

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Private practice, Los Angeles, California, 1969-2006
President and general counsel, Los Angeles [California] Building Authority, 1983-2006
Vice chairman, California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, 1987-1991

Education

Name of School:

Brigham Young University

Degree:

B.A.

Degree Year:

1966

Name of School - Second:

University of Chicago Law School

The University of Chicago Law School occupies a unique niche among this country's premier law schools. Located on a residential campus in one of America 's great cities, Chicago offers a rigorous and interdisciplinary professional education that blends the study of law with the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Students, faculty, and staff form a small, tightly knit community devoted to the life of the mind. Learning is participatory. Chicago does not seek to impose a single viewpoint or style of thought on its students. Instead, our faculty exposes students to contrasting views, confident in students' abilities to choose their own paths.

Degree - Second:

J.D.

Degree Year - Second:

1969

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Court Name:

Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

President Nominating:

George W. Bush

Party Affiliation of President:

Republican

Commission Date:

5/18/2006