Joy Shoemaker has served as a librarian for more than 20 years. She is the Librarian at the United States Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, a branch of the Ninth Circuit Library within the federal judiciary. In prior experience, Joy has served as the Head of Research Services for the School of Law Library at the University of California, Irvine, a research librarian for the Supreme Court of the United States Library, and a reference librarian for the School of Law Library at Duke University.
Joy earned a BA in economics from DePauw University, a JD from the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University, Bloomington, and an MLS from Indiana University, Bloomington. Joy serves on the Board of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries as the past president, on the Economic Status of Law Librarians Committee for the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), and as the Chair of the Council of Chapter Presidents for AALL. Joy was honored as a “Leader of Today” in Celebrating Diversity: A Legacy of Minority Leadership in the American Association of Law Libraries (2018).