Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong

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Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong
Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Assumed office
February 7, 2022
Appointed byJoe Biden
Preceded byChristina A. Snyder
Personal details
Born
Maame Abena Famanyame Ewusi-Mensah

1976 (age 45–46)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (AB)
Yale University (JD)

Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong (née Maame Abena Famanyame Ewusi-Mensah; born 1976)[1] is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. She is a former judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Early life and education[]

Frimpong was born in 1976 in Los Angeles[1] and raised in Los Angeles County, California to Kwaku Ewusi-Mensah and Theodora Ewusi-Mensah, immigrants from Ghana.[2] She attended the Vivian Webb School for Girls, graduating as valedictorian of her class in 1993.[3][4] Frimpong received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1997 and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2001.[5]

Career[]

After graduating from Harvard, Frimpong worked as a public high school teacher in Ghana.[6] From 2001 to 2002, Frimpong served as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She then worked as an associate at Morrison & Foerster from 2002 to 2007. From 2007 to 2015, she served in various positions in the United States Department of Justice, including in the Civil Division. In 2015, she was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to serve as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Thomas R. White.[7][8]

Federal judicial service[]

On September 8, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Frimpong to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. On September 20, 2021, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Frimpong to the seat vacated by Judge Christina A. Snyder, who assumed senior status on November 23, 2016.[9] On October 20, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[10] On December 2, 2021, her nomination was favorably reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote.[11] On December 17, 2021, her nomination was confirmed by a 46–24 vote.[12] She received her judicial commission on February 7, 2021.[13]

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References[]

  1. ^ a b "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  2. ^ "Governor Brown Appoints Seven to Los Angeles County Superior Court | Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr". www.ca.gov. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  3. ^ "Meet Judge Maame Frimpong '93". January 25, 2018. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  4. ^ "Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong - Top Ghanaian-American legal brain tasked to solve Ghana's power crisis | National Black Lawyers".
  5. ^ "Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong for Los Angeles County Superior Court in California". Trellis. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  6. ^ Staff Writer (September 10, 2021). "All about Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, the woman nominated by Joe Biden as a judge". GhanaWeb. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  7. ^ "Brown Names 25 Judges, Seven in Los Angeles". www.metnews.com. November 18, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  8. ^ "President Biden Names Seventh Round of Judicial Nominees". The White House. September 8, 2021. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  9. ^ "Nominations and Withdrawal Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. September 20, 2021. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  10. ^ "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. October 20, 2021.
  11. ^ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – December 2, 2021" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
  12. ^ "On the Nomination (Confirmation: Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, of California, to be U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California.)". United States Senate. December 17, 2021. Retrieved December 17, 2021.
  13. ^ "Frimpong, Maame Ewusi-Mensah". February 7, 2022. Retrieved February 7, 2022.

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