Myong Joun | |
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Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts | |
Assumed office July 14, 2023 | |
Appointed by | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | George A. O'Toole Jr. |
Associate Justice of the Boston Municipal Court | |
In office 2014 –July 14,2023 | |
Nominated by | Deval Patrick |
Personal details | |
Born | Myong Jin Joun 1971 (age 51–52) Seoul,South Korea |
Education | University of Massachusetts Boston (BA) Suffolk University (JD) |
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Years of service | 1990–1996 |
Unit | Massachusetts National Guard |
Myong Jin Joun (born 1971) [1] is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He previously served as an associate judge of the Boston Municipal Court.
Joun earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1994 and a Juris Doctor from the Suffolk University Law School in 1999. [2]
From 1999 to 2007,Joun worked as an associate at Howard Friedman P.C. in Brookline [3] He was a solo practitioner from 2007 to 2014. In 2014,Governor Deval Patrick nominated Joun to serve as an associate judge of the Boston Municipal Court. [4] Joun also served in the United States Army and Massachusetts National Guard. [5] Joun has worked with the ACLU of Massachusetts, [6] the National Lawyers Guild, [7] the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute,the American Bar Foundation and the Massachusetts Bar Foundation. [7]
On July 29,2022,President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Joun to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. On August 1,2022,his nomination was sent to the Senate. He has been nominated to a seat vacated by Judge George A. O'Toole Jr.,who assumed senior status on January 1,2018. [8] On November 15,2022,a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. [9] On December 8,2022,his nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote. [10] On January 3,2023,his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI,Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate. He was renominated on January 23,2023. [11] On February 9,2023,his nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–9 vote. [12] On July 12,2023,the Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 51–46 vote. [13] Later that day,his nomination was confirmed by a 52–46 vote. [14] He received his judicial commission on July 14,2023. [15] He became the first Asian American man on the federal bench in Massachusetts. [16]
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