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Thomas was born in San Diego. Thomas' father was a bookkeeper and her mother was a school custodian, neither of whom went to college. [3] She graduated from Stanford University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors. Thomas worked as a client advocate for the San Francisco Bar Association's Volunteer Legal Services Program from 2000 ...
On November 14, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Thomas to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida [3] to replace U.S. District Judge Adalberto Jordan whose nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit was approved in February 2012. [4] Thomas is openly gay. [5]
Operation Greylord was an investigation conducted jointly by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Chicago Police Department Internal Affairs Division and the Illinois State Police into corruption in the judiciary of Cook County, Illinois (the Chicago jurisdiction).
Following is a list of persons appointed as United States District Court, old Circuit Court, and Court of Appeals judges, from the Federal Judicial Center. Many of those missing can be solved with redirects, as the Federal Judicial Center tends to include middle names or initials, which Wikipedia may not.
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court in Washington, D.C. Along with the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the High Court of American Samoa, it also sometimes handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa, which has no local federal court or territorial court.
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In 2015, Tillie Paul's great-granddaughter, Debra O'Gara, was named Tribal Court Presiding Judge by the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. [ 17 ] In 2020, Tillie's civil rights work and the charges brought against her in 1922 for “inducing an Indian not entitled to vote to vote at an election” [ 18 ] were ...
Before joining law school, Thomas was a reporter for The Detroit News. [2] After law school, Thomas clerked for Judge R. Guy Cole of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. [3] [4] Thomas joined the University of Michigan School of Law in 2003, prior to that she was a trial attorney with Defender Association of Philadelphia. [5]