Jane Branstetter Stranch
| Jane Branstetter Stranch | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit | |
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Assumed office September 15, 2010 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Martha Craig Daughtrey |
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Kathy Jane Branstetter September 17, 1953 Nashville, Tennessee |
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University of Virginia University of Tennessee Vanderbilt University B.A. Vanderbilt University Law School J.D. |
Jane Branstetter Stranch (born September 17, 1953) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Born Kathy Jane Branstetter in Nashville, Tennessee, Stranch first attended the University of Virginia from 1971 to 1972 and then the University of Tennessee from 1972 to 1973 and earned no degree. In 1973, Stranch enrolled at Vanderbilt University earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in 1975. She then earned a Juris Doctor from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1978, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif.
Stranch started her professional career at the law firm of Branstetter, Stranch & Jennings, PLLC as a law clerk working summers and part-time 1975 through the summer of 1978. Following the bar exam, Stranch was promoted to an associate in 1978 and became a partner in 1994.
From 1981 through 1983 Stranch, taught a general introductory course in labor law at Belmont University.
Early in her career Stranch practiced law in both the state and federal courts with a focus in labor employment, Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), personal injury, worker's compensation, wrongful death, and utility law.
During the latter part of the 1990s, Stranch's practice was mainly complex litigation and class action work throughout the United States. Many of her cases involved representation of plan participants who had lost their individual account pensions due to fiduciary breaches, often concurrent with corporate scandals. Stranch litigated approximately 85% of her cases before the federal courts and 15% in state courts and other administrative agencies. The vast majority (95%) were in civil proceedings.
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