Committee in 2000. In October 2003 he was appointed Chair of the Standing Committee on the Rules of Practice and Procedure, which sits at the top of the federal judiciary's rulemaking process; in 2010 he was reappointed by Chief Justice John Roberts to serve as a member of that committee. Other service He was the first president and a founder of the Milton L. Schwartz American Inn of Court, now the Schwartz-Levi American Inn of Court, at the King Hall School of Law, University of California at Davis, and has served as Chair of the Ninth Circuit's Task Force on Race, Religious and Ethnic Fairness and as the President of the Ninth Circuit District Judges Association. In 2005, Levi was elected to the Council of the American Law Institute (ALI) and currently is serving as its president. A member of the ALI since 1991, Judge Levi was an Adviser to its Federal Judicial Code Revision Project and an Adviser to the Institute's new Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. When Levi stepped down as dean of Duke Law School on June 30, 2018, he became the inaugural director of the school's Carl and Susan Bolch Judicial Institute founded that year with the mission of "advancing the importance of rule-of-law principles and a fair and independent judiciary and raising public awareness during lapses or failures in the rule of law." He is coauthor of Federal Trial Objections (James 2002). He is on the Rehnquist Center's National Board of Advisers. Personal His father was Edward H. Levi. His great-grandfather was A.G. Becker. See also List of Jewish American jurists List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 1) References External links FJC Bio David F. Levi, Career Profile Wall Street Journal, Law Blog Above the Law, Legal Tabloid Appearances on C-SPAN.org |- 1951 births 20th-century American judges 20th-century American Jews American legal scholars Assistant United States Attorneys Duke University School of Law faculty Harvard University alumni Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States Deans of law schools in the United States Lawyers from Chicago Living people Stanford Law School alumni United States Attorneys for the Eastern District of California United States district court judges appointed