Patricia Anne Gaughan | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | |
Assumed office October 1, 2023 | |
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | |
In office June 1,2017 –June 5,2023 | |
Preceded by | Solomon Oliver Jr. |
Succeeded by | Sara Elizabeth Lioi |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | |
In office December 26,1995 –October 1,2023 | |
Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Ann Aldrich |
Succeeded by | vacant |
Personal details | |
Born | Lakewood,Ohio,U.S. | October 21,1953
Education | Saint Mary's College (BA) University of Notre Dame (JD) |
Patricia Anne Gaughan (born October 21,1953) is a Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Born in Lakewood,Ohio,Gaughan received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Mary's College in 1975 and a Juris Doctor from Notre Dame Law School in 1978. She was an assistant prosecuting attorney of the Criminal Trial Division,Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office,Ohio from 1978 to 1983 and from 1984 to 1987. She was an Assistant United States Attorney of the Economic Crime Division,Northern District of Ohio from 1983 to 1984. She was an adjunct professor at Cleveland Marshall College of Law,Cleveland State University from 1983 to 1987,and was in private practice in Cleveland from 1984 to 1987. She was a judge of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas from 1987 to 1995.
On September 29,1995,Gaughan was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio vacated by Ann Aldrich. Gaughan was confirmed by the United States Senate on December 22,1995,and received her commission on December 26,1995. [1] She served as chief judge from 2017 to 2023. [2] [3] She assumed senior status on October 1,2023. [1]
Alice M. Moore Batchelder is an American attorney and jurist. She is currently a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She served as chief judge from 2009 until 2014. She also was considered by President George W. Bush as a potential nominee for a United States Supreme Court seat that ultimately went to Justice Samuel Alito. Her husband William G. Batchelder was a former state Court of Appeals judge and a state legislator,who had served more than 30 years in the Ohio House of Representatives and served as Speaker of the House from 2011 until 2014.
Anna Louise "Ann" Aldrich was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Lesley Simpson Brooks Wells is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Christopher Allan Boyko is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
James C. Connell was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Emerich Burt Freed was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Ben Charles Green was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Robert Bazil Krupansky was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Sara Elizabeth Lioi is the Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio,while also serving as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Paul Ramon Matia is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Charles Joseph McNamee was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Donald Clark Nugent is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
George Washington White was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Francis Joseph Wing was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
George E. Woods was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Benita Yalonda Pearson is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and formerly a United States magistrate judge on the same court.
Pamela Ann Barker is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. She formerly served as a Judge of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.
Jude Philip Calabrese is an American jurist who serves as a district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He formerly served as a judge of the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas from 2019 to 2020.
Bridget Meehan Brennan is an American lawyer from Ohio who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. She served as acting United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio from 2021 to 2022.
Rebecca Chattin Lutzko is an American lawyer who has served as the interim United States attorney for the Northern District of Ohio since June 2023. In June 2023,she was nominated to serve as the permanent U.S. attorney for the same district.