Reyna (born November 11, 1952) is an American lawyer, former president of the Hispanic National Bar Association, and currently a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Reyna was nominated to the Federal Circuit on September 29, 2010.
When nominated, he received the highest rating possible by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary: "Unanimously Well Qualified." On April 4, 2011, the U.S.
Senate confirmed his nomination by a roll-call vote of 86-0.
As of January 11, 2019, Reyna has heard 1,325 cases and authored 272 opinions, including 125 precedential opinions and 3 en banc opinions; Reyna authored the en banc opinions in Wi-Fi One, LLC v.
Broadcom Corporation, 878 F.3d 1364 (Fed.
Cir.
2018) (en banc), Suprema, Inc.
v.
Int'l Trade Comm'n, 796 F.3d 1338 (Fed.
Cir.
2015) (en banc) and Cloer v.
Sec'y of Health & Human Servs., 675 F.3d 1358 (Fed.
Cir.
2012) (en banc order).
In 2018, Judge Reyna authored the most precedential opinions by the Federal Circuit at fifteen opinions.Reyna's appointment to the federal bench had two historical distinctions: he became both the first Latino and first international trade practitioner to be appointed to the Federal Circuit.