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Previously, I was a law clerk for a federal-appeals judge in Ohio, and for
several years, an appellate lawyer for the United States Department of Labor

in Washington, D.C.

During my final decade of AO service, I served as deputy chief and then

chief of the AO's Judicial Conference Secretariat, and occasionally as special
counsel to the AO's deputy director. The Judicial Conference of the United
States is the federal judiciary's national administrative policy-making body,
chaired by the Chief Justice of the United States and including 26 judges

who represent the 12 federal judicial circuits and federal courts of national
jurisdiction.

Before joining the Conference Secretariat, I served in staff positions for

various Conference committees, including the Committee on Long Range
Planning, which framed the first Long Range Plan for the Federal Courts in
the mid-1990s. My work for the AO often entailed analyses of legislative

and regulatory issues, drafting legislation and other policy documents,
preparing witness testimony for congressional hearings, and addressing
inquiries from congressional committees and individual members of

Congress.

Over the years I dealt with such topics as judicial pay and benefits,
"whistleblower" and other protections for judiciary employees,

accountability of judiciary personnel, federal sentencing guidelines, and
federal court jurisdictional and structural reforms. In addition, I played a
significant role in developing policies governing the design and

implementation of the judiciary's automated "CM/ECF" systems, which
permit electronic filing of and access to litigation-related documents in
federal court.

I am Betty Robinson and I retired from the United States Court of Appeals,

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3 Circuit (Philadelphia, Pa.) after 37 and a half years of service. The
Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States
and the courts of appeals sit just below the Supreme Court. I began my

service as a Clerk Typist and ended my career as Special Projects Manager,
providing a monthly confidential Report to the Court, which tracked all cases
that were listed for disposition.

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