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Melissa McKenney Ryan

Melissa McKenney Ryan has been the Director of the Legal Division since December 2016. She joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 1992 as a Staff Attorney, and served as the Assistant Director of the Legal Division from 1998 to 2016. Prior to her court service, Ms. Ryan was a litigation associate at Crowell & Moring. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan College of Engineering in 1983, and graduated, cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1988.