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Chief Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith
U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Chief Judge Campbell-Smith was appointed Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims on September 19, 2013. On October 21, 2013, President Obama designated her to serve as Chief Judge.

Judge Campbell-Smith formerly served as Special Master from December 8, 2005 to April 6, 2011. On April 7, 2011, she was appointed as Chief Special Master.

Judge Campbell-Smith practiced from 1993 to 1996, and again from 1997 to 1998, with the law firm of Liskow & Lewis in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her areas of practice included environmental regulatory law, patent infringement litigation, and toxic tort litigation. Her pro bono work included representing children in adoption proceedings in the juvenile division of Civil District Court in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Judge Campbell-Smith served as an extern to Judge John Minor Wisdom of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1991. She clerked for Judge Martin L. C. Feldman of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1992 to 1993. She clerked for Judge Sarah S. Vance of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1996 to 1997, and she clerked for Judge Emily C. Hewitt of the United States Court of Federal Claims from 1998 to 2005.

Judge Campbell-Smith graduated from Tulane Law School, with honors, in 1992. She received her undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Duke University, with honors, in 1987. She is a member of the bar in the states of Louisiana and Maryland.

Eric P. Bruskin
U.S. Department of Justice

Eric P. Bruskin is a trial attorney in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the United States Department of Justice. Mr. Bruskin currently represents the United States in a wide variety of matters before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Court of Federal Claims. Mr. Bruskin has tried numerous spent nuclear fuel cases in the Court of Federal Claims and has extensive experience in government contract litigation, government procurement challenges, and military pay claims. Mr. Bruskin also frequently argues complex veteran’s benefits and federal employment matters in the Federal Circuit. Before joining the Department of Justice in 2009, Mr. Bruskin was an associate with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Mr. Bruskin graduated from Tufts University, cum laude, in 2000, and he received his J.D. degree from the University of Virginia in 2004.

Special Master Brian H. Corcoran
U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Brian H. Corcoran was appointed as a Special Master of the United States Court of Federal Claims on January 13, 2014. He graduated cum laude, with high honors in his major, from Dartmouth College in 1988. He received his J.D. in 1991 from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Mr. Corcoran is a seasoned trial attorney with experience in a wide variety of legal matters, including intellectual property, general commercial disputes, tax matters, and pro bono civil rights and employment discrimination actions. Until 2008, he was employed in the private sector, rising to the level of partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. From 2008 to 2014, Mr. Corcoran worked for the Department of Justice, Tax Division, as a trial attorney, where he obtained numerous permanent injunctions against fraudulent tax preparers and the promoters of illegal tax schemes across the United States.

Mr. Corcoran is admitted to the bars of New York and the District of Columbia, as well as numerous federal district courts.

Chief Special Master Beth Dorsey
U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Nora Beth Dorsey was appointed Special Master of the United States Court of Federal Claims on January 14, 2013. She was designated Chief Special Master by the court to succeed Denise K. Vowell, effective September 1, 2015.

She graduated from Winston-Salem State University with a B.S. in Nursing in 1979, and she received her J.D. in 1991 from the University of Georgia School of Law.

Special Master Dorsey served from 2005 until her appointment as director of the civil litigation defense team of Hancock Daniel Johnson & Nagel, P.C. in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to 2005 she worked in various personal injury and medical malpractice law firms. She is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, Georgia, and Virginia, several U.S. District Courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Brad Fagg
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Brad Fagg is a partner in the firm of Morgan Lewis in Washington, DC. He is a partner in the firm's Litigation Practice and Co-leader of the firm's Government Contracts and Energy Litigation Practices. Mr. Fagg has extensive civil trial and appellate experience, including all phases of pre-trial discovery, motions practice and briefing, hearings and trials, and briefing and arguing appeals.

Brad is lead counsel for most of the US nuclear utilities in their claims against the federal government regarding the government's obligations to accept and dispose of spent nuclear fuel. He has secured multiple hundred-million-dollar settlements and trial verdicts for such clients, and then successfully defended the awards upon appeal. Under Brad's leadership, Morgan Lewis teams have won the electric utility industry an aggregate of more than $2 billion in judgments and settlements.

In claims against the government, Brad maximizes recovery through a deep knowledge of Opposing counsel and presiding judges, and efficient deployment of pretrial resources. Brad also has experience with all manner of government contract disputes and counseling, the False Claims Act, civil fraud investigations, real estate joint ventures, class actions, and federal administrative issues. Brad represents clients in other industries in commercial, construction, and environmental matters.

Before joining Morgan Lewis, Brad served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, handling civil fraud cases, procurement disputes, takings claims, and employment appeals. His trial work involved construction and other commercial contract disputes, including multi-million-dollar government contract claims, and civil fraud investigations.

In addition to other honors, Mr. Fagg served as the President of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims Bar Association in 2008, and he is a member of the Court of Federal Claims Advisory Council.

Judge Nancy B. Firestone
U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Judge Firestone was appointed Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims on October 22, 1998. She graduated from Washington University with a B.A. in 1973, and she received her J.D. in 1977 from the University of Missouri - Kansas City Law School.

Judge Firestone formerly was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Justice Department from 1995 - 1998. She also served as a Judge on the Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Appeals Board from 1992-1995. Prior to that, Judge Firestone was the Associate Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 1989-1992. Before serving at the Environmental Protection Agency, Judge Firestone was an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Judge Firestone is also an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Steve Gillingham
U.S. Department of Justice

Steve Gillingham is an Assistant Director in the DOJ Civil Division's National Courts Section in Washington, DC, an office of approximately 135 attorneys who litigate before the United States Court of Federal Claims, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals, and the United States Court of International Trade. The office's practice involves government contracts, government programs, takings, import regulation, federal employment, and veteran and military status. Steve is responsible for reviewing attorney work, leading trial teams, personally handling complex cases, and for various administrative and management matters, including case assignment.

Steve has served on the Board of Governors of the United States Court of Federal Claims Bar Association, and has lectured at the George Washington University, the Judge Advocate General's School, the Department of Justice's National Advocacy Center, and before various agency attorney groups. Steve is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Gonzaga University School of Law and is a Retired Colonel of the United States Army. In his spare time, Steve is a baseball umpire and soccer and basketball referee.

Special Master Thomas Gowen
U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Thomas L. Gowen was appointed Special Master of the United States Court of Federal Claims on March 3, 2014. He is a 1971 graduate of Haverford College from which he received the George Miller Award in Political Science. He graduated from Villanova University School of Law.

Special Master Gowen practiced law for 37 years in the Philadelphia area, and for the ten years preceding his appointment to the court as a partner at Locks Law Firm in Philadelphia. His focus was primarily in complex tort litigation, including the handling of traumatic brain injury, carbon monoxide poisoning, spinal cord injury, medical negligence, toxic torts, and other personal injury matters. He has served as Chairman of a hearing panel for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the Third, Fourth, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeals.

Judge Marian Blank Horn
U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Marian Blank Horn was appointed by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate as a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims in 1986 and again in 2003. She is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and received a J.D. degree from the Fordham University School of Law. In 1995, she received the Dean's Medal of Recognition from the law school.

Before being appointed to the United States Court of Federal Claims, Judge Horn served as Acting Solicitor and Principal Deputy Solicitor at the United States Department of the Interior, and as Associate Solicitor for General Law and Deputy Associate Solicitor for Surface Mining, also at the United States Department of the Interior. She formerly served as Deputy Assistant General Counsel for Procurement and Financial Incentives, Senior Attorney for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and Litigation Attorney at the Department of Energy. Judge Horn is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School, teaching Negotiations and Alternative Dispute Resolution in the LL.M. program and Trial Advocacy in the J.D. program. She also has taught as an adjunct professor of law at the Washington College of Law, American University and served as project manager for the United States Department of Justice "Study of Alternatives to Conventional Criminal Adjudication" at the College of Law. Her previous experience includes private law practice and service as a prosecutor and Deputy Chief of the Appeals Bureau in the District Attorney's Office, Bronx County, New York.

Judge Horn has participated as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow. She speaks frequently to high school, college and law school audiences on the challenges faced by working women and on topics related to civil and criminal law.

She is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court and State and Federal Courts in New York and Washington, D.C. She has received numerous government awards for outstanding and excellent performance at the United States Departments of Energy and Interior, as well as awards and scholarships in law school and college.

Paul Khoury
Wiley Rein LLP

Paul is a partner at Wiley Rein, LLP, where has worked since he graduated from George Washington University Law School in 1986. He counsels and represents clients in all aspects of the government contracting process. He is regularly involved in litigation on behalf of government contractors, representing clients in bid protests at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (COFC); claims and disputes under the Contract Disputes Act at the Boards of Contract Appeals and the COFC; civil false claims actions; and prime/sub disputes in federal district courts and state courts.

Paul was also chair of the firm's Pro Bono Committee from 1998 to 2014. He obtained commutation of a client's death sentence from Virginia Governor George Allen three hours before the scheduled execution in a highly publicized pro bono capital habeas corpus case.

Edward Kraus
Chicago-Kent School of Law

Professor Kraus joined the clinical faculty at IIT Chicago-Kent in 1999. Prior to joining the Chicago-Kent faculty, he was an attorney at the law firm of Plokin, Jacobs & Orlofksy Ltd., where he specialized in complex civil litigation and consumer class actions. From the beginning of 1996 through 1997, Professor Kraus was the policy director for the Jewish Council of Urban Affairs, where he directed advocacy and policy efforts addressing social and economic justice issues in Chicago. From 1993 to 1996, he was a staff attorney for Legal Action of Wisconsin, where he represented low-income clients in a variety of civil matters, including public benefits, special education and Medicaid.

Professor Kraus received a B.A. (Phi Beta Kappa) in English from the University of Michigan and a J.D. (cum laude) from Georgetown University Law Center. Since 1999, he has been the supervising attorney for Chicago-Kent's Health & Disability Law Clinic, where he represents individuals in a variety of civil matters, including Social Security disability law, long-term disability benefits, disability discrimination, vaccine injury claims and employment disputes. Beginning in September 2007, Professor Kraus has focused part of his practice on representing and advocating for individuals with diabetes in education, employment and insurance matters. He teaches Consumer Health Benefits and Disability Law at Chicago-Kent.

Patricia M. McCarthy
U.S. Department of Justice

Patricia M. McCarthy is an Assistant Director of the Commercial Litigation Branch of the United States Department of Justice, supervising commercial and international trade litigation. She has actively represented the United States in a wide variety of matters, including multi-billion dollar contract disputes, before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the United States Court of Federal Claims, the United States Court of International Trade, and the LCIA (formerly London Court of International Arbitration). Ms. McCarthy has extensive expertise in complex government contract disputes, government procurement challenges, antidumping and countervailing duty litigation, customs penalty actions, and state-to-state arbitrations. She has received numerous awards, including two John Marshall Awards, the Department of Justice's highest award offered to attorneys for contributions and excellence in specialized areas of legal performance. She presently sits on the Board of Governors of the United States Court of Federal Claims Bar Association. Before joining the Department of Justice in 1994, Ms. McCarthy was an associate with the Boston law firm of Bingham, Dana & Gould. Ms. McCarthy graduated from Colby College, cum laude, in 1984, and she received her J.D. degree from Cornell University in 1989.

Vincent Matanoski
U.S. Department of Justice

Vincent Matanoski graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1981 with degrees in English and German. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Maryland School of Law and was on the editorial staff of that school's International Law Journal. Upon graduation, he accepted a commission in the United States Navy where he served as a judge advocate with tours of duty at the Naval Submarine Base New London, Connecticut, and the Judge Advocate General's Office in Washington, D.C. He left active duty in 1991 to accept a position as a Trial Attorney with the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He is currently Deputy Director of the Constitutional and Specialized Torts Branch, where his responsibilities include oversight of Vaccine Act litigation. He is also a Captain in the United States Naval Reserve working on security assistance in sub-Saharan Africa.

Special Master Christian J. Moran
U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Christian Moran was appointed as Special Master on December 8, 2005. He entered duty on January 17, 2006.

Before his appointment, Mr. Moran worked for five years as a Trial Attorney in the Department of Justice, Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch. Mr. Moran represented the United States at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the United States Court of Federal Claims in cases involving government contracts, military and civilian personnel, and veterans' benefits.

Previously, Mr. Moran served as a law clerk to Judge Edward J. Damich at the United States Court of Federal Claims. Mr. Moran also was an associate with the firm Spinella & Jaffe, P.C., in Hartford, Connecticut. Mr. Moran's practice focused on representing plaintiffs in personal injury, workers' compensation and civil rights actions. Mr. Moran began his legal career as a law clerk to the judges of the Connecticut Superior Court.

Mr. Moran graduated from the University of Connecticut School of Law with honors. In law school, Mr. Moran won the American Jurisprudence awards for Evidence and Federal Courts. Before beginning law school, Mr. Moran served as a full-time volunteer house parent in Boys Hope (now Boys Hope / Girls Hope). He received his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, with honors.

Captain Narayan Nair, M.D.
Health Resources and Service Administration

Captain Narayan Nair, M.D. is the Acting Director for the Division of Injury Compensation Programs, in the Health Resources and Service Administration. He is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician. He obtained his undergraduate degree at Saint Louis University and his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1990, he was Commissioned as an Officer in the United States Public Health Service. In that role he has served in a variety of assignments. He has worked in clinical practice at a Community Health Center in Pennsylvania and an Indian Health Service Hospital in Arizona providing care to medically underserved patients. In addition, he has worked in the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General addressing issues related to disaster preparedness. Prior to joining the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, he was a medical team leader at the FDA working on drug safety. As a PHS officer, he has deployed as part of the medical response for Hurricanes Katrina and Isaac, and also in support of President Reagan's Funeral, as well as the Inaugurations of Presidents Bush and Obama.

Joshua I. Schwartz
The George Washington University Law School

Professor Schwartz joined the George Washington University Law School faculty in 1985, after serving for five years in the Office of the Solicitor General in the Department of Justice, where he was responsible for briefing and arguing cases before the Supreme Court. In addition to his law degree, Professor Schwartz holds a master's degree in city and regional planning. He served as a law clerk for Judge Marvin E. Frankel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Thereafter, he served for two years in the appellate section of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice.

Professor Schwartz teaches in the fields of property, administrative law, government contracts, and legislation. His research and writing is primarily in the fields of government contracts and administrative law. As co-director (with Professors Schooner and Yukins) of the Government Procurement Law LL.M. Program, he is jointly responsible for the administration of that program, and is also a regular participant in domestic and international conferences on public procurement issues, including comparative public procurement studies.

From 2005 to 2007, Professor Schwartz served as a member of the Acquisition Advisory Panel, a federal government commission studying the state of our procurement system, and charged with recommending reforms. The Commission's report was published in January 2007. Professor Schwartz was appointed to the E.K. Gubin Chair by the Dean of the Law School and the Trustees of the University in the Fall of 2008.

Professor Schwartz is a faculty advisor for the Federal Circuit Bar Journal (along with Dean Whealan and Professor Schooner), and informally advises student members and editors of the American Bar Association's Public Contract Section's Public Contract Law Journal, particular with regard to note writing. He is serving in his second term as a member of the Advisory Committee for the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Jerry Stouck
Greenburg Traurig LLP

Jerry Stouck has a wide-ranging trial and appellate litigation practice. He has particular experience in complex business, regulatory and environmental disputes with government agencies, and is Chair of the firm's Federal Regulatory and Administrative Law practice group.

Jerry represented the lead bank plaintiff in the landmark "Winstar" litigation involving the government's breach of hundreds of savings and loan merger agreements, and has represented several nuclear utility companies in damages litigation over the government's failure to complete the Yucca Mountain repository for spent nuclear fuel.

Jerry regularly challenges federal agency action under a wide range of regulatory regimes. He also handles environmental and land use litigation, including related contract/commercial disputes, and has extensive experience with eminent domain and Fifth Amendment regulatory takings claims. Jerry appears frequently in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and Federal Circuit, in the D.C. federal district court and D.C. Circuit, and in other trial and appellate courts across the country.

Danielle Strait
Maglio Christopher & Toale, P.A.

Danielle Strait practices vaccine law at Maglio Christopher & Toale, P.A., in the Firm's Washington, DC office. Prior to joining the Firm, she spent three years serving as a judicial law clerk to former Chief Special Master Gary Golkiewicz at the United States Court of Federal Claims. Ms. Strait graduated with honors from the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in 2009. She served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy in 2008-09. Her undergraduate degree was earned at Iowa State University. Before accepting her position at the Court of Federal Claims, she was employed at the Washington D.C.-area law firm of Decaro, Doran, Siciliano, Gallagher and DeBlasis. In addition to the United States Court of Federal Claims, Ms. Strait is admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia.

Jessica Tillipman
The George Washington University Law School

Jessica Tillipman is the Assistant Dean for Field Placement and Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School. In addition to managing the law school's large externship program, she teaches a Government Contracts Anti-Corruption & Compliance Seminar that focuses on anti-corruption, ethics and compliance issues in government procurement. She also advises companies on anti-corruption compliance issues.

Prior to joining GW Law, Dean Tillipman was an associate in Jenner & Block's Washington, DC office, where she was member of the firm's Government Contracts and White Collar Criminal Defense and Counseling practice groups. She joined Jenner & Block after serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Lawrence S. Margolis of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Dean Tillipman is a Senior Editor of the "The FCPA Blog"-a leading Foreign Corrupt Practices Act resource on the internet. She has also published articles on various government contracts and white collar topics, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, suspension and debarment, and government ethics in The George Washington University International Law Review, Fordham Law Review Res Gestae, the Public Contract Law Journal, Public Procurement Law Review, and Thomson Reuter's Briefing Papers. Her legal commentary has been featured in numerous international media outlets, including CNN, ESPN, The Washington Post, Slate, Buzzfeed, and the Associated French Press. Dean Tillipman graduated cum laude from Miami University in Oxford, OH and obtained her JD, with honors, from George Washington University Law School.

Curtis R. Webb
Attorney at Law

Curtis R. Webb has represented petitioners in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program since its creation in 1988. He has represented 275 petitioners in Table cases involving nearly every included vaccine and Off-Table cases. He has won compensation for catastrophically injured children injured by the DTP, DTaP, MMR, and Oral Polio vaccines and for adults seriously injured by the MMR, Hepatitis B, Influenza, Varicella, and HPV vaccines.

Mr. Webb represented the petitioners in several precedent setting cases, including Koston v. Sec'y of Health and Human Services, 974 F.2d 157 (Fed. Cir. 1992), and Shyface v. Sec'y of Health and Human Services, 165 F.3d 1344 (Fed. Cir. 1999). Not all of his noteworthy cases have been victories. He represented Yates Hazlehurst in one of the Omnibus Autism Proceeding cases, Hazlehurst v. Sec'y of Health and Human Services, 604 F.3d 1343 (Fed. Cir. 2010), and Rachel Hammitt in one the pair of severe epilepsy cases which addressed the Secretary's defense based on the predisposition to seizures in children with mutations in the SCN1A gene, Stone v. Sec'y of Health and Human Services, 690 F.3d 1380 (Fed. Cir. 2012).

Mr. Webb served on the Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) from 1992 through 1995 and as the Chairperson of the Commission in 1995. He has also served on the board of directors of the Idaho Conservation League and Idaho Rivers United and is currently a member of the board of directors of the Central American Community Project, a non-profit organization that helps students from a mountain village in Costa Rica attend junior high and high school.

He is a graduate of Utah State University (1981) and Brigham Young University Law School (1984). His office is in Twin Falls, Idaho.

Judge Thomas Wheeler
U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Judge Wheeler was appointed to the United States Court of Federal Claims on October 24, 2005. He received his Juris Doctor Degree from Georgetown University Law School in 1973, and his undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1970. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, and of the American Bar Association's Public Contracts and Litigation Sections.

From 1973 to 2005, Judge Wheeler was in private practice in Washington, D.C. He was an associate and partner in the law firm of Pettit & Martin until 1995, and then moved as a partner to the law firm of Piper & Marbury. Through mergers with other firms, Piper & Marbury became known as Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, and later as DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary. During his years in private practice, Judge Wheeler specialized in Government Contract claims, litigation, and counseling, representing a wide variety of large and small business clients. He appeared before many agency boards of contract appeals, the United States Court of Federal Claims and its predecessors, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, a number of United States District Courts, and the Government Accountability Office (formerly the General Accounting Office).

Judge Wheeler is married, and has two grown children. Judge Wheeler is active in his Church and community, and he previously served for many years as a youth soccer coach and referee. His outside interests include skiing, photography, writing, softball, and hiking.