Judge Robin L. Rosenberg Selected to be Director of the Federal Judicial Center
April 10, 2025
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., announced today that the Board of the Federal Judicial Center has selected United States District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg to be the twelfth director of the Federal Judicial Center.
Chief Justice Roberts, who chairs the nine-member Board of the Center, stated, “The Board selected Judge Rosenberg from a number of outstanding candidates. Judge Rosenberg is an experienced judge with a deep interest in education and research and a demonstrated commitment to the Center’s mission. The Board is confident that Judge Rosenberg will be a worthy successor to John Cooke, whom I thank for his seven years of dedicated service as the Center’s director.”
Upon being notified of her selection, Judge Rosenberg said, “I am honored to be selected and grateful for the opportunity to serve the Center and the judiciary in this new role. I strongly believe in the Center’s initiatives and its staff and will work tirelessly to support both as the director.” She plans to assume her new duties in August.
Judge Rosenberg has served as a district judge in the Southern District of Florida since 2014. Prior to her federal judicial service, Judge Rosenberg was a judge in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Florida from 2007 to 2014, and previously she served as a corporate general counsel, an assistant city attorney, a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, and in private practice. Since 2018 she has been a member, and since 2022 the chair, of the United States Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. In 2023 the Chief Justice appointed her as a member of the Editorial Board preparing the fifth edition of the Federal Judicial Center’s Manual for Complex Litigation.
Judge Rosenberg received her B.A. from Princeton University, and an M.A. and J.D. from Duke University.
Congress created the Federal Judicial Center in 1967 to “further the development and adoption of improved judicial administration in the courts of the United States,” through research and education. The Center is headquartered in the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, DC.
Last year the Federal Judicial Center completed 38 research projects, produced eight reports, manuals, and guides, and provided 164 in-person and technology-based programs for some 19,000 federal judges and judiciary employees. The Center’s research, which is usually undertaken at the request of the Judicial Conference of the United States and its committees, focuses on federal court processes and operations. Center education programs include orientation and continuing education for judges on subjects including law and procedure, case management, and ethics.
The Federal Judicial Center is the research and education agency of the judicial branch of the U.S. government. The Center was established by Congress in 1967 (28 U.S.C. §§ 620–629). At left, the Center’s statutory purpose is superimposed on the photo of the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C., where the Center is located.
The Center's governing board is chaired by the Chief Justice of the United States. The other Board members are seven judges elected by the Judicial Conference of the United States, and the Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.