Anne Hwang

Anne Hwang
Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Incumbent
Assumed office
December 6, 2024
Appointed byJoe Biden
Preceded byGeorge H. Wu
Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court
In office
2019 – December 6, 2024
Appointed byJerry Brown
Preceded bynew seat
Personal details
Born1975 (age 48–49)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic[1]
EducationCornell University (BA)
University of Southern California (JD)

Anne Hwang (born 1975)[2] is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California since 2024. She previously served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court from 2019 to 2024.

Education

Hwang received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 1997 and a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law in 2002.[3]

Career

Hwang started her legal career, working as a litigation associate at Irell & Manella LLP from 2002 to 2006. From 2006 to 2018, she served as a deputy federal public defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California.[3] On December 7, 2018, Governor Jerry Brown appointed Hwang to serve as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court.[1]

Federal judicial service

On April 28, 2024, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Hwang to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. On April 30, 2024, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Hwang to the seat vacated by Judge George H. Wu, who assumed senior status on November 3, 2023. On May 22, 2024, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[4] On July 11, 2024, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–10 vote.[5] On November 20, 2024, the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 51–48 vote.[6] On December 2, 2024, her nomination was confirmed by a 48–43 vote.[7] She received her judicial commission on December 6, 2024.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Governor Brown Appoints 13 Superior Court Judges" (Press release). Office of the Governor. December 7, 2018. Archived from the original on May 28, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
  2. ^ "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
  3. ^ a b "President Biden Names Forty-Eighth Round of Judicial Nominees" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. April 24, 2024. Retrieved April 24, 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. May 21, 2024.
  5. ^ "Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Eight Judicial Nominations To The Full Senate" (Press release). United State Senate Committee on the Judiciary. July 11, 2024. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
  6. ^ "On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture: Anne Hwang to be U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California)". United States Senate. November 20, 2024. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
  7. ^ "On the Nomination (Confirmation: Anne Hwang, of California, to be U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California)". United States Senate. December 2, 2024. Retrieved December 2, 2024.
  8. ^ Anne Hwang at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
Legal offices
Preceded by Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
2024–present 		Incumbent