Paula Xinis
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Assumed office
May 18, 2016
Appointed byBarack Obama
Preceded byDeborah K. Chasanow
Personal details
Born
Panagiota Xinis

1968 (age 55–56)
Mineola, New York, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Virginia (BA)
Yale University (JD)

Paula Xinis (born Panagiota Xinis, 1968) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

Biography

Xinis is of Greek ancestry.[1] She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in 1991 from the University of Virginia. She received a Juris Doctor in 1997 from Yale Law School. She began her legal career as a law clerk for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, from 1997 to 1998. From 1998 to 2011, she served as an assistant federal public defender, serving as director of Training for the office from 2006 to 2011. She served at the law firm of Murphy, Falcon & Murphy in Baltimore, Maryland, as a senior trial attorney from 2011 and as a partner from 2013 to 2016. She practiced both civil and criminal litigation.[2][3]

Federal judicial service

On March 26, 2015, President Barack Obama nominated Xinis to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, to the seat vacated by Judge Deborah K. Chasanow, who assumed senior status on October 3, 2014. Her nomination was reported from the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 17, 2015, by a voice vote.[4][5] On May 16, 2016, the Senate confirmed her nomination by a 53–34 vote.[6][7] She received her judicial commission on May 18, 2016.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Obituary for Betty Xinis".
  2. ↑ "President Obama Nominates Two to Serve on the United States District Courts". whitehouse.gov. 26 March 2015 – via National Archives.
  3. 1 2 Paula Xinis at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
  4. ↑ "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate". whitehouse.gov. 26 March 2015 – via National Archives.
  5. ↑ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – September 17, 2015". www.judiciary.senate.gov.
  6. ↑ "On the Nomination (Confirmation Paula Xinis, of Maryland, to be U.S. District Judge)". www.senate.gov.
  7. ↑ Jalonick, Mary Clare (May 16, 2016). "The Senate has confirmed lawyer Paula Xinis to be a federal judge in Maryland". Associated Press News. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
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