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Snapshot Stephanie Dawn Thacker is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She previously served in the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, rising to principal deputy chief. After leaving DOJ in 2006, she advised Jeffrey Epstein’s defense during the 2007 and 2008 dispute over federal charges in ... Read more

Before Stephanie Thacker became a federal appellate judge, she helped represent Jeffrey Epstein during the negotiations surrounding his controversial Florida resolution. Her role deserves particular scrutiny because Thacker previously served as Principal Deputy Chief of the Justice Department’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, commonly known as CEOS. In June 2008, Thacker invoked that experience in ... Read more