2025 Hall of Fame Inductee John M. Rogers Emeriti Faculty

John Rogers came to the faculty of the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1978, and was on the teaching faculty until 2002, when he was appointed by President G.W. Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He has recently taken inactive status as Circuit Judge. He grew up on Army posts, attending Fort Knox High School from 1963 to 1966. He graduated from Stanford University in 1970, and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1974.

He was an appellate litigator in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in 1974-78, and again, as a visiting professor at the DOJ, in 1983-85. At UK, Professor Rogers regularly taught Torts, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and International Law. He was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 1991-94. While at UK, he wrote articles on the interplay of U.S. and international law, culminating in his book, International Law and United States Law (Ashgate 1999). He also wrote articles on the theory of stare decisis as applied in multiple-member appellate courts. He is the lead co-author of a published casebook for Administrative Law, currently in its fifth edition. He spent two separate years as a Fulbright senior lecturer in China, teaching international law and other subjects, in 1987-88 in Beijing and in 1993-94 in Guangzhou. He is a member of the American Law Institute and of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was commissioned as a U.S. Army Reserve Artillery Officer when he graduated from college, and he participated in the Army Reserve Components for 28 years, including five years in the Kentucky Army National Guard.

Judge Rogers and his wife, Ying Juan, have two children, Lilian and Lawrence.