Abdul Kallon
Abdul Kallon | |
|---|---|
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama | |
| Assumed office January 4, 2010 | |
| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | U. W. Clemon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 5, 1969 Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| Education | Dartmouth College (A.B.) University of Pennsylvania (J.D.) |
Abdul Karim Kallon (born April 5, 1969) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. He is a former nominee to be a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Early life and education[]
Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Kallon earned an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Dartmouth College in 1990. He earned a Juris Doctor in 1993 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as Articles Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Business Law. Kallon served as a law clerk for Judge U. W. Clemon of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama from 1993 until 1994.[1] In 2020, Judge Kallon graduated from Duke Law School with an LLM in judicial studies. [2]
Professional career[]
From 1994 to his judicial appointment, Kallon worked in private legal practice in Birmingham, Alabama.[citation needed] He practiced labor and employment law as a partner at the Birmingham law firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP.[1][3]
Federal judicial service[]
On July 31, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Kallon to be a judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.[3] Kallon was nominated for the seat vacated by Clemon, who retired earlier in 2009.[4] According to news accounts, Kallon had been recommended for the judgeship by a panel of legal experts assembled by United States Representative Artur Davis. However, his name was not on a list of candidates compiled by a committee of the Alabama Democratic Party.[4] The United States Senate confirmed Kallon to his judgeship by unanimous consent on November 21, 2009.[5] He received his commission on January 4, 2010.[1]
On February 11, 2016, President Obama nominated Kallon to serve as a Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, to the seat vacated by Judge Joel Fredrick Dubina, who took senior status on October 26, 2013. His nomination expired on January 3, 2017, with the end of the 114th Congress.[1][6][7]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Kallon, Abdul K. – Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
- ^ https://judicialstudies.duke.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018-MJS-Bios-Photos.pdf
- ^ Jump up to: a b President Obama Nominates Abdul K. Kallon and Jacqueline H. Nguyen to Serve on the District Court Bench Archived 2009-08-09 at the Wayback Machine, whitehouse.gov (July 31, 2009).
- ^ Jump up to: a b Mary Orndorff, President Obama nominates Abdul Kallon for federal judgeship in Birmingham, The Birmingham News (July 31, 2009).
- ^ Mary Orndorff, Birmingham's Abdul Kallon confirmed by Senate for federal judgeship, The Birmingham News (November 23, 2009).
- ^ "President Obama Nominates Judge Abdul K. Kallon to Serve on the United States Court of Appeals". whitehouse.gov. 11 February 2016 – via National Archives.
- ^ "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate". whitehouse.gov. 11 February 2016 – via National Archives.
External links[]
- Abdul Kallon at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- Abdul Kallon at Ballotpedia
- 1969 births
- African-American judges
- 21st-century American lawyers
- Dartmouth College alumni
- Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
- Living people
- Lawyers from Birmingham, Alabama
- People from Freetown
- Sierra Leonean emigrants to the United States
- United States district court judges appointed by Barack Obama
- 21st-century American judges
- University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni