Araceli Martínez-Olguín
Araceli Martínez-Olguín | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California | |
| Assumed office March 3, 2023 | |
| Appointed by | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Jeffrey White |
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| Born | 1977 (age 46–47) Mexico City, Mexico |
| Education | Princeton University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (JD) |
Araceli Martínez-Olguín (born 1977)[1] is an American lawyer from California who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Education
Martínez-Olguín received a Bachelor of Arts from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 1999 and a Juris Doctor from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 2004.[2][3]
Career
From 2004 to 2006, Martínez-Olguín served as a
Bay Area Lawyer Chapter's board of directors from 2015 to 2022.[5]
Federal judicial service
On July 29, 2022, President
Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate; she was renominated later the same day.[9] On February 2, 2023, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–9 vote.[10] On February 28, 2023, the Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 48–47 vote.[11] Later that day, her nomination was confirmed by a 49–48 vote, with the Vice President Kamala Harris voting in the affirmative.[12] She received her judicial commission on March 3, 2023.[13] She is the second Latina to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.[14]
See also
References
- ^ "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
- ^ a b c d "President Biden Names Twenty-Fourth Round of Judicial Nominees" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. July 29, 2022. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
- ^ a b "Araceli Martinez-Olguin". American Civil Liberties Union. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
- ^ "NILC Staff". National Immigration Law Center. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
- ^ Rodriguez, Katherine (February 28, 2023). "Araceli Martínez-Olguín Is Confirmed for Federal Judgeship in Northern District of California" (PDF). United States Courts for the Ninth Circuit. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
- ^ "Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. August 1, 2022.
- ^ "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. September 21, 2022.
- ^ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – December 1, 2022" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved December 1, 2022.
- ^ "Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. January 3, 2023.
- ^ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – February 2, 2023" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ "On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture: Araceli Martinez-Olguin to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California)". United States Senate. February 28, 2023. Retrieved February 28, 2023.
- ^ "On the Nomination (Confirmation: Araceli Martinez-Olguin, of California, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California)". United States Senate. February 28, 2023. Retrieved February 28, 2023.
- ^ Araceli Martínez-Olguín at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- ^ DiFeliciantonio, Chase (July 29, 2022). "Biden selects two judicial nominees for Northern District bench, continuing streak of diverse appointments". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
External links
- Araceli Martínez-Olguín at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
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