Biography
B.A., University of Chicago, 1974; J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1977. Private practice, Houston, Texas, 1978-1992; Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 1992- present; Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, 2016-2022. Judge Rosenthal served on, and then chaired, the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, then the Standing Committee on the Rules of Practice and Procedure. She is Vice-President of the American Law Institute and served as an adviser for the Transnational Rules of Civil Procedure Project, the Restatement of Employment Law, the revision to the Model Penal Code on Sexual Assault, and the Restatement on the Conflict of Laws. She is the 2012 recipient of the Lewis F. Powell Jr. Award for Professionalism and Ethics given by American Inns of Court, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has also been recognized several times as the Trial Judge of the Year by the Texas Trial and Appellate Specialists.
