Chad

Readler

After a federal clerkship, Judge Readler began his legal career at the international law firm Jones Day, eventually spending 10 years as a partner in the firm’s issues and appeals practice group. While at Jones Day, Judge Readler appeared most frequently in the Supreme Court of Ohio and the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He also successfully argued before the US Supreme Court in McQuiggin v. Perkins on behalf of an inmate claiming actual innocence, and he represented capital defendants before the Tenth Circuit and the Supreme Court of Ohio.  

Judge Readler traveled to Nairobi with Lawyers Without Borders to train Kenyan lawyers in prosecuting domestic violence cases, has visited Moldova to train Moldovan judges on civil litigation, and was a recipient of the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship awarded by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. 

He later served as acting assistant attorney general for the Civil Division of the US Department of Justice from 2017 to 2019. In that role, Judge Readler led and supervised more than 1,000 lawyers in the department’s largest litigating division, briefing and arguing high-profile cases significant to the administration and the department. 

In March 2019, Judge Readler was confirmed to his current position as a judge on the Sixth Circuit. In true bipartisan fashion, he teaches a presidential powers seminar at both Ohio State University and the University of Michigan.