Morgan Brenda Christen is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She previously served as a state court judge on the Alaska Supreme Court from 2009 to 2012 and on the Alaska Superior Court from 2002 to 2009.
Christen as part of an all-women three judge appellate panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that heard oral arguments on March 8, 2018 at the William K. Nakamura U.S. Courthouse in Seattle; other panel members were fellow Circuit Judge Johnnie B. Rawlinson and Chief District Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal of the District Court for the District of Wyoming, sitting by designation.
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts:District of Alaska
District of Arizona
Central District of California
Eastern District of California
Northern District of California
Southern District of California
District of Hawaii
District of Idaho
District of Montana
District of Nevada
District of Oregon
Eastern District of Washington
Western District of Washington
Ninth Circuit Court House in 1905
The Richard H. Chambers U.S. Court of Appeals, Pasadena, California
Mary M. Schroeder, when appointed (Nov. 2000) Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit, with her predecessor, Procter Ralph Hug Jr.
