Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Judge John Owens has been a federal judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 2014. Prior to joining the court, Judge Owens was litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP and a federal prosecutor for more than a decade. He earned his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he graduated first in his class.  He served as a law clerk for the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States.