Judge Amul Roger Thapar will be the keynote speaker at the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Cincinnati’s annual fundraising banquet. Judge Thapar serves on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and was on the shortlist of judges considered to replace both U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy. A convert to Catholicism, Judge Thapar is the first federal judge of South Asian descent and is a member of St. Pius X parish in Edgewood, Ky. Social time begins at 5:30 p.m.; dinner and program at 6:45.