Michael W. Mosman
Michael W. Mosman is a Senior United States District Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. From February 1, 2016, to December 23, 2019, he served as Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on May 8, 2003, and confirmed on September 25, 2003.
He also previously served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon from 2001 to 2003. From 1988 to 2001, he was Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Oregon.
From May 4, 2013, to May 3, 2020, he served on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. He has also been a Judge of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court since 2018.
In 1984, Mosman clerked for Malcolm Richard Wilkey, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The following year he entered private legal practice for part of 1985. He then clerked for United States Supreme Court justice Lewis F. Powell. Afterward, he was in private practice in Portland, Oregon.
Mosman was born in 1956 in Eugene, Oregon. He grew up in Lewiston, Idaho. He attended Ricks College and graduated with an Artium Baccalaureus degree in 1979. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1981 from Utah State University and was valedictorian. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from Brigham Young University’s J. Reuben Clark Law School.
He and his wife, Suzanne, have five children.
