Alice M. Batchelder


Alice Moore Batchelder is an American attorney and jurist. She currently is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and she served as that circuits chief judge from 2009 until 2014. She also was considered by President George W. Bush as a potential nominee for a U.S. Supreme Court seat that ultimately went to Justice Samuel Alito. Her husband William G. Batchelder is a former state Court of Appeals judge and a state legislator, who has served more thanyears in the Ohio House of Representatives and served as Speaker of the House from 2011 until 2014.

Batchelder was born Alice Moore in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1964, where she met her future husband, William G. Batchelder. Batchelder received her Juris Doctor from the University of Akron School of Law in 1971, and her Master of Laws degree from the University of Virginia in 1988.

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