Amul Thapar is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The son of Indian immigrants, he grew up in Toledo, Ohio, and graduated from Boston College and the University of California at Berkeley Law School. Before becoming an appeals court judge, he served as a federal prosecutor and trial judge. He regularly teaches at Notre Dame, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt. He and his wife have three children and live in Northern Kentucky.