Arianna Freeman | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit | |
| Assumed office October 20, 2022 | |
| Appointed by | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Theodore McKee |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Arianna Julia Freeman 1978 (age 45–46) Boston,Massachusetts,U.S. |
| Education | Swarthmore College (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Arianna Julia Freeman (born 1978) is an American lawyer from Pennsylvania who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Freeman was born in 1978 in Boston. [1] She received her Bachelor of Arts,with honors,from Swarthmore College in 2001 and her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2007. [2]
Freeman served as a law clerk for Judge James T. Giles from 2007 to 2008 and Judge C. Darnell Jones II from 2008 to 2009,both on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. From 2009 to 2022,she worked at the Federal Community Defender Office including as an assistant federal defender as a research and writing specialist from 2009 to 2014 and in the Non-Capital Habeas Unit from 2014 to 2016. From 2016 to 2022,she was a managing attorney with the Federal Community Defender office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. [2]
Freeman was part of the legal team handling the handling the federal habeas corpus challenge of the death sentence of Terrance Williams,who was convicted of a 1984 murder. [3]
On January 19,2022,President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Freeman to serve as a United States circuit judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. President Biden nominated Freeman to the seat vacated by Judge Theodore McKee,who on July 29,2021,notified the White House that he intended to assume senior status upon confirmation of his successor. [4] On January 28,2022,following Justice Stephen Breyer's announcement of his intention to retire as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,Freeman was mentioned as one of the potential nominees for a Supreme Court appointment by President Joe Biden. [5] On March 2,2022,a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. [6] During her confirmation hearing,Republican senators criticized her work as a public defender. [7] On April 4,2022,the committee failed to report her nomination by an 11–11 vote. [8] On June 22,2022,the United States Senate discharged the committee from further consideration of her nomination by a 50–48 vote. [9] On September 6,2022,Majority Leader Chuck Schumer filed cloture on her nomination. [10] On September 12,2022,the Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 45–44 vote. [11] On September 13,2022,the Senate rejected her nomination by a 47–50 vote. [12] Freeman was the first Biden judicial nominee to be rejected by the Senate. [13] On September 29,2022,upon reconsideration,her nomination was confirmed by a 50–47 vote. [14] She received her judicial commission on October 20,2022. [15] She is the first African-American woman to serve on the Third Circuit. [16] [17]
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