Janice Rodgers Brown is an American jurist. For the first two decades of her career, Brown primarily worked for government agencies. She served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2005 to 2017 and before that, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court from 1996 to 2005. Brown briefly entered private practice at the firm of Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor in 1990, but left in January 1991 to return to government as the Legal Affairs Secretary for Governor Pete Wilson from January 1991 to November 1994. Brown retired from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on August 31, 2017.