Sally Medley has been an Administrative Patent Judge since July of 2000. Judge Medley received a BSEE from the University of Kentucky, an MBA from Florida Institute of Technology and a JD from the George Mason University, School of Law, and was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1998. Judge Medley was employed as a systems engineer for Lockheed and then for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center from 1988-1993. She began her career with the Patent and Trademark Office in 1993 as an examiner.