Vanessa R. Avery

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Vanessa R. Avery
United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut
Nominee
Assuming office
TBD
Appointed byJoe Biden
SucceedingJohn Durham
Personal details
EducationYale University (BA)
Georgetown University (JD)

Vanessa R. Avery is an American lawyer who is the nominee to serve as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

Education[]

Avery received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1996 and her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1999.[1]

Legal career[]

From 1999 to 2003, Avery was an attorney in the Hartford Trial Group at Cummings & Lockwood LLC. From 2004 to 2005, she served as a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil Division. From 2006 to 2014, she was a litigation attorney at McCarter & English. From 2014 to 2019, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut. Since 2019, she has served as an associate attorney general in the Connecticut Attorney General's Office and as chief of the division of enforcement and public protection since 2021.[1]

Nomination as U.S. Attorney[]

On January 26, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Avery to be the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut. If confirmed, she would be the first African-American female to serve as U.S. Attorney.[2] Her nomination earned the praise of Connecticut Attorney General William Tong.[3] On January 31, 2022, her nomination was sent to the United States Senate.[4] Her nomination is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

References[]

  1. ^ a b "President Biden Announces Six New Nominees to Serve as U.S. Attorneys" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. January 26, 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Dixon, Ken (January 26, 2022). "New Haven native could become first Black female US attorney for CT". The Middletown Press. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
  3. ^ "Biden nominates Associate Attorney General Vanessa Avery to be Connecticut U.S. Attorney". courant.com. January 26, 2022. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
  4. ^ "Press Release: Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. January 31, 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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