Marian Blank Horn (born 1943) is a

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of the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Early life, education, and career

Born in

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,Joint Committee on Printing, ''Official Congressional Directory, 2009-2010: 111th Congress'', p. 864-65. Horn attended the Fieldston School and received a

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degree from

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, and a

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from the

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, in 1969. She was an assistant district attorney in

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, New York, and then entered private practice as a litigator with the firm of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin and Kahn. From 1973 to 1975, Horn was a project manager for a Study of Alternatives to Conventional Criminal Adjudication, and an adjunct professor at

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's Washington College of Law. She then joined the Office of General Counsel for the Department of Energy/ Federal Energy Administration, and in 1979 became the Office's deputy assistant general counsel for Financial Incentives, Office of General Counsel. From 1981 to 1986, she worked in the

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, where she assisted the Associate Solicitor and helped administer the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977.

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Nomination of Marian Blank Horn, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims
(March 3, 2003). In 1985, Horn was promoted to principal deputy solicitor, where she supervised all the Regional and Field Offices of the Solicitor's Office in the Department and acted as the chief lawyer to the Secretary and Under Secretary of the

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Federal judicial service

In 1986, President

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appointed Horn as judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims. She was reappointed by President

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in 2003 and assumed

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on March 9, 2018.Biography of Marian Blank Horn from the United States Court of Federal Claims

Personal life

Judge Horn is the daughter of Werner and Mady Blank. Her father was a German judge removed from the bench in Berlin by the Nazis for being Jewish. She was married to Robert J. Horn, a lawyer who was the founding chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association, until his death in February 2020. They have three daughters.

References

External links

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Biography of Marian Blank Horn from the United States Court of Federal Claims
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