Margaret A. Ryan

Margaret A. Ryan ( * in Chicago, Illinois) is an American lawyer and judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces of the United States.

Ryan was nominated on 15 November 2006 by President George W. Bush to replace Judge HF Gierke, who resigned on 30 September 2006. Ryan was confirmed unanimously on December 9, 2006 by the Senate of the United States. She was sworn in on 20 December 2006, their legally limited 15-year term ends on September 30, 2021.

Before joining the Court, Ryan worked as an attorney for several law offices. Most recently, she worked from 2004 until her appointment as a judge at Wiley Rein LLP. Previously had worked from 2002 to 2004 at Bartlit Beck Palenchar & Scott from 1999 to 2000, Cooper Carvin & Rosenthal. Ryan was from 1988 to 1992 active soldier of the United States Marine Corps, and again from 1995 to 1999 in the military justice system. As a member of this unit it was stationed as a court councilor and High Court Councillor in Okinawa, Japan and Quantico ( Virginia). She then served as aide to the commander of the Marine Corps, General Charles C. Krulak.

Ryan holds a B. A. of Knox College, her J. D. she received from the Law Faculty of the University of Notre Dame as part of the legal education program of the Marine Corps. At the university, she worked as co-editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. Ryan worked from 2000 to 2001 Judge J. Michael Luttig in the Fourth Circuit court, then from 2001 to 2002 for Justice Clarence Thomas at the United States Supreme Court

The security company Blackwater sued in January 2008, the law firm Wiley Rein and their former employee Margaret A. Ryan damages in the amount of 30 million U.S. dollars because Ryan and a project managed by their team of lawyers from the firm were considered to Blackwater under 2005 had made their mandate exercise of a violation of their official duties guilty when they took the company against a lawsuit filed by relatives of four Blackwell employees who were killed on 31 March 2004 in Fallujah. The action for damages against Wiley and Ryan was dismissed by the Superior Court ( Superior Court ) of the District of Columbia on May 27, 2008, against the rejection of Blackwater has objected.