of Staff to the United States Secretary of State and former Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and deputy director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Prerak Shah (2010–11), former Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas and former chief of staff and chief counsel to U.S. Senator Ted Cruz Stephen S. Schwartz (2008–09), judge, United States Court of Federal Claims Ilya Somin (2001–02), professor of law, George Mason University School of Law, and Volokh Conspiracy contributor David H. Steinberg (1993–94), screenwriter Todd Zywicki (1993–94), George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law and executive director of the Law & Economics Center, George Mason University School of Law, and Volokh Conspiracy contributor References External links Bloomberg BNA profile on Judge Smith 1946 births 20th-century American judges 21st-century American judges Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Living people People from Houston United States court of appeals judges appointed by Ronald Reagan Yale Law School alumni People from Del Rio, Texas