Judicial Career
In the first Reagan administration, Buckley initially served as an undersecretary of State and then as President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 1982 to 1985.
He was appointed in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He became a senior (semi-retired) judge of that Court in 1996.
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