Pamela Pepper

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Pamela Pepper
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Assumed office
November 1, 2019
Preceded byWilliam C. Griesbach
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
Assumed office
December 8, 2014
Appointed byBarack Obama
Preceded byCharles N. Clevert Jr.
Personal details
Born1964 (age 57–58)
New Orleans, Louisiana
ResidenceShorewood, Wisconsin
Alma materNorthwestern University (BS)
Cornell University (JD)

Pamela Pepper (born 1964) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and former chief United States bankruptcy judge of the same court.

Education[]

Pepper received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1986 from Northwestern University. She received a Juris Doctor in 1989 from Cornell Law School.[1][2]

Career[]

She began her legal career as a law clerk for Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 1989 to 1990. She served as an assistant United States attorney in the Northern District of Illinois from 1990 to 1994 and in the Eastern District of Wisconsin from 1994 to 1997. From 1997 to 2005, she worked in private practice as a criminal defense attorney, where she handled both trials and appeals in State and Federal courts. Starting in 2005 until 2009, Pepper concurrently served as a bankruptcy judge in the Eastern District of Wisconsin and Southern District of Illinois. From 2009 to 2014 she served solely in the Eastern District of Wisconsin and from 2010 to 2014 she served as chief United States bankruptcy judge.[2][1]

In 2014, Pepper was one of three finalists recommended to President Barack Obama by the bipartisan Wisconsin Federal Nominating Commission to fill a vacancy on the federal District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The other finalists were attorney Beth Kushner and state-court judge William Pocan.[3]

On May 1, 2014, Obama nominated Pepper to the seat, which was vacated by Judge Charles N. Clevert Jr., who took senior status on October 31, 2012.[4] She received a hearing on her nomination in the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 24, 2014.[5] On July 17, 2014, her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.[6] On November 18, 2014, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on her nomination. On November 19, 2014, cloture was invoked by a vote of 58–39.[7] On November 20, 2014, the Senate voted 95–0 in favor of confirmation.[8] She received her judicial commission on December 8, 2014.[2] She became chief judge on November 1, 2019.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "President Obama Nominates Judge Pamela Pepper to Serve on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin". whitehouse.gov. 1 May 2014 – via National Archives.
  2. ^ a b c "Pepper, Pamela – Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
  3. ^ Gayle Worland, Three nominees for Eastern District Court judgeship named, Wisconsin State Journal (February 15, 2014).
  4. ^ "Presidential Nomination Sent to the Senate". whitehouse.gov. 1 May 2014 – via National Archives.
  5. ^ "United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary". www.judiciary.senate.gov.
  6. ^ ""Results of Executive Business Meeting – July 17, 2014" United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary" (PDF).
  7. ^ "U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress – 2nd Session". Vote Summary: Vote Number 283. United States Senate. Retrieved 19 November 2014.
  8. ^ "U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113th Congress – 2nd Session". Vote Summary: Vote Number 288. United States Senate. Retrieved 20 November 2014.
  9. ^ "Chief Judge Press Release" (Press release). Milwaukee, Wisconsin. November 1, 2019. Retrieved November 6, 2019.

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Preceded by Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
2019–present
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