Thomas B. Griffith was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by President George W. Bush in 2005. He retired from the D.C. Circuit in 2020 and is currently Sp Thomas B. Griffith was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit by President George W. Bush in 2005. He retired from the D.C. Circuit in 2020 and is currently a Lecturer on Law at the law schools at Harvard and Stanford, a member of the ABA Task Force for American Democracy, a member of the Data Protection Review Court in the Department of Justice, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Karsh Institute for Democracy at the University of Virginia.
In 2021, President Joe Biden appointed him to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court, A graduate of BYU and the University of Virginia School of Law, Judge Griffith was a litigation partner at Wiley, Rein and Fielding in Washington, D.C., prior to being named Senate Legal Counsel of the United States, the nonpartisan chief legal officer of the Senate. In that capacity, he represented the interests of the Senate in litigation and advised the Senate leadership and its committees on investigations, including the impeachment trial of President Clinton. Prior to his appointment to the D.C. Circuit, Judge Griffith was the General Counsel of Brigham Young University. He has long been active in rule of law projects in Eastern Europe and Eurasia and has been appointed by the government of Ukraine to help vet applicants for its Constitutional Court.