Anne Rachel Traum

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Anne Rachel Traum
Personal details
Born1969 (age 52–53)
Redwood City, California, U.S.
EducationBrown University (AB)
University of California, Hastings (JD)

Anne Rachel Traum (born 1969) is an American attorney and academic who is a professor of law at the William S. Boyd School of Law and a nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.

Early life and education[]

Traum was born in Redwood City, California. She received a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, in 1991 from Brown University. She received a Juris Doctor in 1996 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.[1]

Career[]

Traum began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Stanwood Duval of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. She served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada from 2000 to 2002, while on detail from the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice, where she worked from 1998 to 2000. From 2002 to 2008, she served as an assistant federal public defender in the Federal Public Defender's Office in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1]

Traum has been a professor of law at the William S. Boyd School of Law of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas since 2008, and she has worked as the director of the Appellate Clinic since 2009. She also served as the associate dean for experiential legal education from 2013 to 2015.[1] She served as special counsel in the Office for Access to Justice at the United States Department of Justice from 2015 to 2016.[2]

Expired nomination to district court under Obama[]

On April 28, 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Traum to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, to the seat vacated by Judge Robert Clive Jones, who took senior status on February 1, 2016. Her nomination expired on January 3, 2017, with the end of the 114th Congress.[3]

Renomination to district court under Biden[]

On November 3, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Traum to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.[2][4] On December 15, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[5] The confirmation hearings were particularly contentious when questioned by Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. He asked nine separate times whether [criminal misbehavior should be forgiven in the name of social justice], without receiving a direct yes or no response.[1] On January 3, 2022, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate;[6] she was later renominated the same day.[7] On January 20, 2022, her nomination is reported out by the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote 12-10.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "President Obama Nominates Eight to Serve on United States District Courts" White House, April 28, 2016
  2. ^ a b "President Biden Names Ninth Round of Judicial Nominees" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. November 3, 2021. Retrieved November 3, 2021. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate" White House, April 28, 2016
  4. ^ "Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. November 3, 2021. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. December 8, 2021.
  6. ^ "PN1360 - Nomination of Anne Rachel Traum for The Judiciary, 117th Congress (2021-2022)". www.congress.gov. January 3, 2022. Retrieved January 4, 2022.
  7. ^ "Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. January 3, 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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