Judge Cheryl Ann Krause

President, American Inns of Court

Cheryl Ann Krause has served as a Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since 2014. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, summa cum laude, and graduated from Stanford Law School with highest honors.

After clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the United States, Krause joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, prosecuting federal criminal cases from 1997–2002.  She then joined a multi-national law firm, where she specialized in white collar criminal defense and government investigations, served as outside counsel for the Board of Ethics of the City of Philadelphia, and founded a partnership with a non-profit organization to protect the educational rights of disabled youth.

Krause has lectured at Stanford and Colombia Law Schools and is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Since her unanimous confirmation by the U.S. Senate in 2014, Judge Krause has promoted civic education and excellence in the profession in many capacities, including as a member of the American Law Institute, and as Trustee of the Board of the National Constitution Center.

Her article, Lawyer Wellbeing as a Crisis of the Profession, was the 2019 winner of the prestigious Warren E. Burger Prize. In 2021, she was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve on the Space and Facilities Committee of the U.S. Judicial Conference.

Krause is the past president and current chair of the University of Pennsylvania Law School American Inn of Court, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania