Barry G. Silverman

Barry G. Silverman (born October 11, 1951) is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Education and early career Born in The Bronx, New York, Silverman attended Phoenix's Central High School in the late 1960s. Silverman is Jewish. Silverman earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Arizona State University in 1973 and his Juris Doctor from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in 1976. Silverman served as assistant city prosecutor for the city of Phoenix from 1976 until 1977 and was the deputy county attorney from 1977 until 1979, being assigned to the courtroom of future United States Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who at that time was an Arizona jurist. Silverman was a Maricopa County superior court commissioner from 1979 until 1984. Then Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt appointed Silverman a state superior court judge in 1984. In 1995, Silverman was appointed a United States magistrate judge in Phoenix. Federal judicial service