Judge Judith M. Barzilay was appointed by President Clinton to the United States Court of International Trade in 1998. In her fourteen years on the bench, she has handled cases in the areas of customs law, antidumping and countervailing duties, and trade adjustment assistance. She has also sat by designation of the Chief Justice on several U.S. appellate courts and for the Southern District of New York, handling cases of general federal jurisprudence. She was chair of the Court's Public Affairs and Education Committee for eight years and taught principles of U.S. Customs law annually to new law clerks.