James Robart
United States federal judge
James Louis Robart (born 1947) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Early life and education
Robart was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1947. Robart's father, Victor Robart, worked for Standard Oil of California as a ship captain. James Robart grew up in the Richmond Beach neighborhood of Shoreline, Washington, and graduated from Shoreline High School, where he was student body president. He attained the rank of Eagle Scout.
Robart received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Whitman College in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1973. As a student, he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity’s Gamma Epsilon chapter at Whitman and was administrative editor of the Georgetown Law Journal at Georgetown . He also was a legislative assistant to United States Representative John Dellenback and worked with Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson on the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
Career
From 1973 to 2004, Robart was in private practice in Seattle with the law firm of Lane Powell Moss & Miller (later Lane Powell Spears Lubersky LLP and then Lane Powell PC). He specialized in civil litigation.
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