| Summary: | Judge Roger Gregory was born on July 17, 1953 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Petersburg, Virginia, graduating from Virginia State University in 1975. He earned his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1978. Gregory served as an attorney at the Detroit law firm of Butzel, Long, Gust, Klein & Van Zile until 1980. He co-founded Wilder & Gregory with L. Douglas Wilder in Richmond, Virginia in 1982. In 2001, Gregory was appointed to serve as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He joined the majority on opinions such as Bostic v. Schaeffer in 2014, which overturned Virginia's ban on same-sex marriage, and King v. Burwell in 2014, which upheld subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. Gregory was appointed as the first African American chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 2016.
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