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The magistrate judge's seat is not a separate court; the authority that a magistrate judge exercises is the jurisdiction of the district court itself, delegated to the magistrate judge by the district judges of the court under governing statutory authority, local rules of court, or court orders. Rather than fixing the duties of magistrate ...
Federal magistrate judges are appointed by each district court pursuant to statute. They are appointed for an eight-year term and may be reappointed for additional eight-year terms. A magistrate judge may be removed "for incompetency, misconduct, neglect of duty, or physical or mental disability". [8]
Alba was a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the District of Utah from August 1992 to 2012. [1] He was chief magistrate judge from 2003 to 2008. [2] He served on the Judicial Conference Committee on Defender Services, and is co-chair of the building committee for the District of Utah. [3]
Williams was appointed a United States magistrate judge on May 1, 2009. [4] [5]On March 30, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Williams to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey to the seat vacated by Judge Jerome B. Simandle, who assumed senior status on May 31, 2017. [9]
Magistrate judges conduct a wide range of judicial proceedings to expedite the disposition of the civil and criminal caseloads of the United States district courts. Congress set forth in the statute the powers and responsibilities that could be delegated by district court judges to magistrate judges. To achieve maximum flexibility in meeting ...
Robert Stewart Ballou (born 1962) [1] is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. He previously served as a United States magistrate judge for the same court.
Pages in category "United States magistrate judges" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 287 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Kidd was born in 1983 in Birmingham, Alabama.He attended Emory University on a full-tuition scholarship, graduating in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts with high honors. He then attended the Yale Law School, where he was an editor of The Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and Policy, as well as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.