Russell Wheeler

Russell Wheeler is a nonresident senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies program. From 1977 until 2005, when he joined Brookings as a guest scholar, he was with the Federal Judicial Center, the federal courts’ research and education agency, serving as deputy director since 1991. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in political science in 1970. Wheeler is a senior fellow at the Administrative Conference of the United States and at the University of Denver’s Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System. He is a member of the advisory board of the Katzmann Initiative at Brookings. From 2001 until 2020, he was an adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law, American University. From 2007 until 2012 he was the United States’ representative to the board of directors of the Justice Studies Center of the Americas in Santiago, Chile. He has posted regularly on the FixGov blog from the Center for Effective Public Management at Brookings and has published articles in numerous academic journals on judicial selection and education, judges’ extrajudicial activities, judicial independence and accountability, and judicial governance.