J. Campbell Barker

John Campbell "Cam" Barker (born 1980) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Education and career Barker earned his Bachelor of Science from Texas A&M University, summa cum laude, in computer engineering. As an undergraduate, he was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, hired by Microsoft as a programmer, and co-authored a paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Barker then earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Texas School of Law with highest honors, graduating first in his class. While on the law review there, Barker published an article on copyright statutory damages that was cited by the district court in Sony BMG v. Tenenbaum, 721 F. Supp. 2d 85 (D. Mass. 2010). Upon graduation from law school, Barker served as a law clerk to Judge William Curtis Bryson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and Judge John M. Walker Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After his clerkships, he served as a trial attorney in the Department of Justice's Criminal Division for four years and was detailed as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia in 2009. Barker prosecuted three members of the MS-13 gang who were convicted of conspiracy and racketeering. Barker was given the Department of Justice's Meritorious Award three times while serving under U.S. Attorneys General Michael Mukasey and Eric Holder. Also while at the Department of Justice, the American Inns of Court selected Barker to visit London and study English law as one of two annual Pegasus Scholars.