Gold ’n Gavel 2019 Alumni Service Award
Honorable Roslyn O. Silver, Senior United States District Judge, District of Arizona (Phoenix)

Senior United States District Judge Roslyn Silver has served as judge for the District of Arizona since her appointment in 1994. She was the first woman appointed in the Phoenix Division and the second woman appointed in the District of Arizona. In 2011 she became the first woman Chief Judge for the District of Arizona. Prior to her appointment to the bench, Judge Silver was Criminal Division Chief and acting First Assistant for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Phoenix. She now teaches at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, in the Law Science Cluster Group, and is a popular Constitutional Law instructor in the Master of Legal Studies program. From 2013-16, the judge was a professor of comparative American and German criminal law at the University of Regensburg, Regensburg Germany. Among her awards, Judge Silver was named Arizona State University Alumnus of the Year in 1996. In 2013, Judge Silver was honored for outstanding achievement as Chief Judge for the District of Arizona by the Phoenix Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. In 2014, she was recognized by the Arizona Association for Justice/Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, receiving the Judicial Integrity Award for commitment to the civil justice system and continued service on the bench. In 2019, she received the Outstanding Professors Award for her teaching of Constitutional Law in the Master of Legal Studies Program. Full bio here.