70 Am. U. L. Rev. 1257 (2021).

* Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (CAVC). Prior to serving on the Court, Judge Bartley was an advocate for veterans and their families, starting as a student attorney at the American University Washington College of Law (WCL), from which she graduated with honors. Her advocacy included testifying before Congress on veterans’ preference laws and serving in a variety of roles, including as a law clerk for Judge Jonathan R. Steinberg of CAVC, a staff and senior staff attorney for the National Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP), the editor of NVLSP’s quarterly publication The Veterans Advocate, and director of outreach and education for the Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program. In June 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Judge Bartley to serve on CAVC. Judge Bartley took her seat on June 28, 2012 and became Chief Judge of the Court on December 4, 2019. Judge Bartley would like to thank Daniel DiLuccia (J.D., American University Washington College of Law, 2010), Executive Attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, for his valuable assistance researching and editing these Symposium remarks.

Chief Judge Bartley delivered these remarks on October 2, 2020 at the American University Law Review’s thirty-fifth annual Federal Circuit Symposium. The remarks have been minimally edited based on the event transcript.