Veronica . Rossman
10th Circuit Court of Appeals
The Honorable Veronica S. Rossman was born in the former Soviet Union. In the mid-1970s, she immigrated with her parents to the United States from Moscow as political and religious refugees. The family settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Judge Rossman grew up. Judge Rossman received her BA in Comparative Literature (Spanish and Russian) from Columbia University. She received her JD from UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. Judge Rossman was a law clerk on the Nevada Supreme Court to Justice William Maupin (retired). She also served as a staff attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Early in her career, Judge Rossman worked for several years as a litigation associate with Morrison & Foerster LLP; she was based in the firm’s Washington D.C. and Denver offices. At the firm, Judge Rossman specialized in appellate practice and antitrust work. Judge Rossman spent the majority of her legal career as an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Districts of Colorado and Wyoming, where she was an appellate lawyer and served as Chief of the Appellate Section and Senior Counsel. Judge Rossman represented many clients before the Tenth Circuit, never realizing she would one day sit on that court. In May 2021, President Biden nominated Judge Rossman for an opening on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She was confirmed to that position by the United States Senate in September 2021. The Tenth Circuit is based in Denver, Colorado and reviews cases from Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming. Judge Rossman maintains her residential chambers in Denver, Colorado at the historic Byron White United States Courthouse. Judge Rossman is a board member of the Federal Judges Association, the Chair of the Colorado Judicial Coordinating Council, the Chair of the Article III Appellate Judges Section of the Federal Bar Association’s Judiciary Division, and a member of the Tenth Circuit’s Criminal Pattern Jury Instruction Committee.
(05/26)
