Boasberg also serves as the presiding judge on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court .
Boasberg was born in San Francisco, California in 1963,[3] to Sarah Margaret (Szold) and Emanuel Boasberg III.[4][5] The family moved to Washington, D.C. when Boasberg's father accepted a position in Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, a Great Society agency responsible for implementing and administering many of Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty programs.[6][7] Boasberg received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1985, where he was a member of Skull and Bones,[8] and a Master of Studies the following year from St Peter's College, Oxford.[9] He then earned his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1990