Cheryl Ann Krause was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in July of 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 for the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court, Judge Krause served for five years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

Before assuming the bench, Judge Krause was a partner at a multi- national law firm where she specialized in white collar criminal defense and government investigations and served as outside counsel for the Board of Ethics of the City of Philadelphia.

She has lectured in the past at Stanford and Columbia Law Schools and served as an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

In addition to her work as a member of the American Law Institute, Judge Krause sits on the Boards of Trustees of the American Inns of Court and the National Constitution Center, and she was appointed by Chief Justice Roberts in 2021 to serve on the Space and Facilities Committee of the United States Judicial Conference. Her 2020 law review article, Lawyer Wellbeing as a Crisis of the Profession, was the winner of the prestigious Warren E. Burger Prize.