David Alan Bragdon | |
|---|---|
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina | |
Designate | |
| Assuming office TBD | |
| Appointed by | Donald Trump |
| Succeeding | Loretta Copeland Biggs |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1977 (age 47–48) |
| Education | Campbell University (BA) University of Virginia (JD) |
David Alan Bragdon is an Assistant United States Attorney in the Middle District of North Carolina. He has been announced as a nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.
Bragdon was born in 1977 in Warren,Ohio. [1] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in government from Campbell University in 1999 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2002,where he was editor of the Virginia Law Review. He served as a law clerk for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2002 to 2003. [1]
Bragdon worked as an associate at Burr and Forman in their Birmingham,Alabama office from 2003 to 2006. He then clerked for Associate Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court from 2006 to 2007. [1] Bragdon was hired to be an Assistant United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina in 2007. He was promoted to Chief of Appeals for that office in 2021. [2]
On August 22,2025,President Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Bragdon to a seat on the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina vacated by Loretta Copeland Biggs. [3] The nomination was transmitted to the United States Senate on September 15,2025,and is currently pending before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. [4] On September 17,2025,a confirmation hearing was held for him and other nominees before the Senate Judiciary Committee. [5] Democrats on the committee questioned Bragdon about his writings on abortion and religious liberty from when he was in college. He pointed out that those writings were from more than 20 years ago. [6] On October 9,2025,the committee voted for his nomination by a vote of 12 to 10. [7] His nomination is pending before the U.S. Senate. On December1,2025,the full U.S. Senate voted to invoke cloture on his nomination by a vote of 50 to 41. [8]