Judith M. Barzilay

is honored with a Brick from Myrne Roe.

Judith Barzilay was inducted as judge of the United States Court of International Trade (USCIT) on November 5, 1998. She began her career in international trade law as a staff attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, International Trade Field Office, from 1983 to l986. From 1986 to 1988 she practiced with Siegel, Mandell and Davidson in their litigation group. During those years, she appeared regularly before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and government agencies regulating international trade, including the Commerce Department, Customs Service and International Trade Commission.

In 1988, she joined Sony Corporation of America as its first in-house customs and international trade counsel and was promoted to vice-president for import and export operations in l989. The department under her direction established Sony's first professional international trade operations in the United States and developed automated systems to insure compliant operations. In January l996, she became vice-president for government affairs and represented Sony with various government agencies on issues ranging from high definition television at the Federal Communications Commission to the export control of encryption technology at the Commerce Department.

From 1993 to 1998, Judge Barzilay served on the executive board of the American Association of Exporters and Importers. In 1995, she was appointed by Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin to his Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of the United States Customs Service; she later resigned to take her current position on the USCIT. She lectures frequently on topics of customs and trade compliance to business groups and university audiences.

Judith Barzilay was born in Russell, Kansas, and educated in the Russell and Wichita, Kansas, public schools. She received her B.A. degree in English and History from Wichita State University and M.L.S. (Master of Library and Information Service) and J.D. degrees from Rutgers University.

Judith Barzilay and her husband Doron, live in Teaneck, N.J. They have two sons, Ilan, a third year law student at the Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Michael, a senior studying aeronautical science at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

April 22, 1999