Patricia Wald, American judge, Died at 90

Patricia McGowan Wald was born on September 16, 1928, and died on January 12, 2019.

She was an American judge.

She was appointed as the Chief United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) and as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

Patricia Wald was the first woman to serve on the D.C. Circuit and the first to serve as Chief Judge of that same court.

Wald served as a member of the American Bar Association's International Criminal Court (ABA-ICC) Project and on the Council of the American Law Institute.

Robert Lewis Wald was her husband, he was also a Yale Law School graduate.

The couple got married in 1951 when Patricia was 23 years old; the pair met in Europe as they were both traveling the continent.

The couple had three daughters and two boys in over a span of seven years: Sarah, Doug, Johanna, Frederica, and Thomas.

They had 10 grandchildren.

Robert Wald passed away at 90 years old in Washington, D.C., from pancreatic cancer.