Federal Circuit Seat Opens for Biden as Wallach Goes Senior (2)

The Federal Circuit will have its first open seat in six years when Judge Evan J. Wallach takes senior status at the end of May.

Wallach was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit by President Barack Obama in 2011 after serving for 16 years as a judge on the U.S. Court of International Trade. He will assume senior status, a form of semi-retirement, May 31, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

President Joe Biden will now have the chance to nominate someone to the court, which was the only federal court of ...