Judge Christopher Cooper
District of Columbia U.S. District Court
Christopher Reid “Casey” Cooper was born in September 1966 in Mobile, Alabama. He earned an undergraduate degree from Yale University and received a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School. He clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Cooper served as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice for two years before entering into the private practice of law.
He was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He was confirmed by the Senate and received his commission in March 2014.
Cooper is married to Amy Jeffries, a former Justice Department official.
In the News…
Judge Christopher Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the removal of President Trump’s name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Judge Cooper wrote, “The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named for President Kennedy, and it cannot bear any other formal name or public memorial based on the Board’s unilateral say-so. Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.”
Judge Cooper also ordered that the board could not unilaterally shutter the center for two years of renovations. He stated that the law establishing the center “does not distinguish between general trustees and ex officio members in any way, other than to identify who they are, spell out how they are appointed, and specify the term length for general trustees.”
The lawsuit was brought by ex officio member Representative Joyce Beatty of Ohio.
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The Honorable Judge Christopher R. Cooper
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
333 Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001
