Judge Leonard P. Stark was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 2022. Previously, he sat on the United States District Court for the District of Delaware as a magistrate judge (2007 – 2010) and district judge (2010 – 2022), including service as the District’s chief judge (2014 – 2021). Before taking the bench, Judge Stark served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, a litigation associate in the Delaware office of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, and a law clerk for the Honorable Walter King Stapleton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judge Stark earned degrees from the University of Delaware, the University of Oxford (Magdalen College), and Yale Law School.