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2ND CIRCUIT PANEL - PADILLA v. Rumsfeld
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT

Subject to change at any time, the Bar is advised that the following is the
schedule of the proposed sitting of this court:

10:00 A.M. Ceremonial Courtroom 500 Pearl St. 9th Fl. Nov. 17
Pooler, B. D. Parker, Wesley, C.JJ. (03-2235)


BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: ROSEMARY S. POOLER

Rosemary S. Pooler is a United States Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit. At the time of her appointment in 1998, she was a United
States District Judge for the Northern District of New York.

Judge Pooler received her B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1959, an M.A. in History
from the University of Connecticut in 1961, and her J.D. from the University of
Michigan Law School in 1965. She also attended the Program for Senior Managers
in Government of Harvard University in 1978, and earned a Graduate Certificate
in Regulatory Economics from the State University of New York at Albany in 1978.

Judge Pooler engaged in the private practice of law in Syracuse from 1966 until
1972. She served as Assistant Corporation Counsel/Director of the Consumer
Affairs Unit for the City of Syracuse from 1972 to 1973. From 1974 to 1975,
Judge Pooler was a District Representative on the Common Council of the City of
Syracuse. From 1975 until 1980 she was Chair and Executive Director of the
Consumer Protection Board of the State of New York. She served as a member of
the New York State Public Service Commission from 1981 until 1986. In 1987,
Judge Pooler was Staff Director of the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
and Commissions of the New York State Assembly. She was Visiting Professor of
Law at Syracuse University from 1987 until 1988, and was Vice-President for
Legal Affairs of the Atlantic States Legal Foundation from 1989 until 1990. In
1990, she became a Justice of the Supreme Court, Fifth Judicial District, State
of New York, and served in this position until becoming a United States District
Judge for the Northern District of New York in 1994.

Judge Pooler is a native of the City of New York.


BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: BARRINGTON D. PARKER, JR.

Barrington D. Parker, Jr. is a United States Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Second Circuit. At the time of his appointment in 2001, Judge
Parker was a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.

Judge Parker received his B.A. degree from Yale College in 1965 and his LL.B.
degree from Yale Law School in 1969.

Judge Parker was law clerk to Judge Aubrey Robinson of the United States
District Court for the District of Columbia from 1969 to 1970. He then went into
private law practice in New York in 1970, serving first at Sullivan & Cromwell
until 1977, then as a partner at Parker, Auspitz, Neesemann & Delehanty, P.C.
from 1977 to 1987, then as a partner at Morrison & Foerster from 1987 until his
appointment in 1994 as a United States District Court Judge for the Southern
District of New York.

Judge Parker is a Successor Trustee and member of the Yale Corporation.

Judge Parker is a native of Washington, D.C..


BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION:  RICHARD C. WESLEY

Richard C. Wesley is a Judge of the United Sates Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit. At the time of his appointment in 2003, he was a Judge of the New York
Court of Appeals.

Judge Wesley received his B.A. degree summa cum laude from the State University
of New York at Albany in 1971, and his J.D. degree from Cornell Law School in
1974.

Judge Wesley engaged in the private practice of law from the time of his
admission to the New York Bar in 1975 until 1986. During three years of that
period, 1979 until 1982, he also served as assistant counsel and chief
legislative aide to New York Assembly Minority Leader James L. Emery. In 1982
Judge Wesley was himself elected to the Assembly - and was re- elected in 1984 -
representing Livingston, Allegany and Ontario Counties.

In 1986 Judge Wesley was elected to a 14-year term as a Justice of the New York
Supreme Court from the Seventh Judicial District. He served as Supervising Judge
of that district's criminal courts from 1991 to 1994. In 1994 he was appointed
by Governor Mario Cuomo to the Supreme Court Appellate Division, Fourth
Department. In 1997 he was appointed a Judge of the New York Court of Appeals by
Governor George Pataki, a position he held until joining the Federal judiciary.

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