Judge Higginson sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Before taking the bench, Judge Higginson was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Before that, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Following law school, Judge Higginson clerked for the Hon. Patricia Wald, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and for the Hon. Byron White, Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Higginson holds an A.B. degree from Harvard College, a M.Phil. degree from the University of Cambridge, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School, where he was Editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal.