Traum joined the UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law in 2008,where she taught Federal Courts and Criminal,founded and directed the Appellate Clinic,and co-founded and co-directed the Misdemeanor Clinic. [2] She served as the associate dean for experiential legal education from 2013 to 2015 and was again appointed to that role in 2021.[3][4] Her scholarship focusing on criminal law and federal courts has appeared in Cornell Law Review,Florida Law Review,Maryland Law Review,Cardozo Law Review,and Hastings Law Journal.[5] Traum is now emerita professor of law at UNLV. [2]
Traum was the supervising attorney for Sazar Dent in Dent v. Holder,627 F.3d 365,the Ninth Circuit case establishing noncitizens' right to view immigration records from their "A-files" by the Department of Homeland Security while in deportation proceedings.[6][7][8]
Prior to her appointment,Traum led efforts to increase access to justice. She helped found the Nevada Appellate Pro Bono Program,which coordinates the appointment of pro bono counsel to indigent parties in cases pending before the Nevada Supreme Court and the Nevada Court of Appeals.[10][11] She also represented the law school on the Nevada Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Commission.[12]
As a member of the Nevada Right to Counsel Commission,she helped draft a statute establishing the Department of Indigent Defense Services (DIDS),an agency that increased access to competent indigent legal defense in Nevada's fifteen rural counties.[13] She served as member,vice-chair,and chair of the Board of DIDS from its founding to her confirmation as a federal judge in 2022.[13]
Federal judicial service
On April 28,2016,President Barack Obama nominated Traum to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada,to the seat vacated by Judge Robert Clive Jones,who assumed senior status on February 1,2016. Her nomination expired on January 3,2017,with the end of the 114th Congress.[14]
On November 3,2021,President Biden nominated Traum to the district court bench.[9][15] After her nomination was returned to the President on January 3,2022,under Rule XXXI,Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate;[16] she was later renominated the same day.[17] On January 20,2022,her nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote.[18] On March 16,2022,the Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 52–45 vote.[19] On March 23,2022,her nomination was confirmed by a 49–47 vote.[20] She received her judicial commission on April 7,2022.[21]
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