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On July 20, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Fitzgerald to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, he was nominated to the seat vacated by Judge Howard Matz. [4] Fitzgerald is the fourth openly gay candidate nominated by Obama to a federal judgeship, after Edward ...
G.W. Bush: 63 District Judge R. Gary Klausner: Los Angeles: 1941 2002–present — — G.W. Bush: 73 District Judge Otis D. Wright II: Los Angeles: 1944 2007–present — — G.W. Bush: 77 District Judge Josephine Staton: Los Angeles: 1961 2010–present — — Obama: 79 District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald: Los Angeles: 1959 2012–present ...
Edward M. Chen (1980): [88] [89] First Asian American male appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (2011) Michael W. Fitzgerald (1985): [90] [91] First openly LGBT male appointed as a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (2012)
In a Dec. 11 court ruling, U.S. District Court Judge for the Central District of California Michael W. Fitzgerald denied for now Brooks' motion to dismiss the lawsuit against him, pending the ...
That same day, Brooks' lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald to dismiss his accuser's claims and direct her to refile them in Mississippi federal court — where Brooks ...
U.S. District Judge Michael Fitzgerald denied Brooks' motion to dismiss the complaint filed in the central district of California due to an "original action" still pending in another state. A ...
District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald: Los Angeles: 1959 2012–present — — Obama: 80 District Judge Jesus Bernal: Riverside: 1963 2012–present — — Obama: 81 District Judge Fernando M. Olguin: Los Angeles: 1961 2013–present — — Obama: 83 District Judge André Birotte Jr. Los Angeles: 1966 2014–present — — Obama: 84 District ...
Batts was the sole openly LGBT judge on the federal bench for seventeen years, until Barack Obama appointed a series of gay and lesbian judges to the district courts: J. Paul Oetken (Southern District of New York, 2011); Alison J. Nathan (Southern District of New York, 2011); Michael W. Fitzgerald (Central District of California, 2012); Nitza I ...