Rebecca Grady Jennings | |
---|---|
Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky | |
Assumed office April 19, 2018 | |
Appointed by | Donald Trump |
Preceded by | John G. Heyburn II |
Personal details | |
Born | Rebecca Christine Grady 1978 (age 46–47) Wilmington,Delaware,U.S. |
Spouse | Patrick Jennings |
Education | Emory University (BA) American University (JD) |
Rebecca Christine Grady Jennings (born 1978) [1] is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
Jennings received her Bachelor of Arts from Emory University and Juris Doctor from the Washington College of Law at American University,where she served as a senior associate on the American University International Law Review.
In 2000 she was a student attorney for the American University Community and Economic Development Law Clinic and later a legal intern for District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Nan R. Shuker. In 2001 she was an equal justice foundation fellow for C-CAPE in Beaufort,North Carolina.
She began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge William Joseph Haynes Jr. of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Before becoming a judge,she worked as chair of Middleton Reutlinger's litigation practice,and her practice focused on civil litigation at both the trial and appellate levels in state and federal courts. [2]
On September 7,2017,President Donald Trump nominated Jennings to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky,to the seat vacated by Judge John G. Heyburn II,who assumed senior status on April 1,2014. [3] A hearing on her nomination before the Senate Judiciary Committee was held on November 15,2017. [4] On December 7,2017,her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote. [5] On April 12,2018,the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 94–2 vote. [6] Her nomination was confirmed later that day by a voice vote. [7] She received her commission on April 19,2018. [8]
On April 21,2022,Jennings temporarily blocked a Kentucky law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks. Jennings has not yet ruled on the law's constitutionality but agreed that more time is needed to determine "specifically determine which individual provisions and subsections are capable of compliance." [9]
Jennings is married to Patrick Jennings,who works at Commonwealth Alliances,a lobbying firm. [10]
Lucy Haeran Koh is an American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Koh previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 2010 to 2021. She also served as a California state court judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2008 to 2010. She is the first Korean American woman to serve on a federal appellate court in the United States.
Elizabeth Ann Wolford is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York. She is the first female judge to serve in the Western District. She is the first female to be chief judge of the Western District of New York.
Sheryl Halle Lipman is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee and a former university counsel for the University of Memphis.
David Jason Hale is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky and former United States attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
Cynthia Ann Bashant is a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and former judge of the San Diego County Superior Court.
Indira Talwani is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Nancy Jo Rosenstengel is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois and former clerk of court of the same court.
Leigh Martin May is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Beth Francine Bloom is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and former Florida circuit court judge.
Cheryl Ann Krause is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Lydia Kay Griggsby is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. She is a former Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims and Chief Counsel for Private and Information Policy for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Gregory Neil Stivers is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
Madeline Elizabeth Cox Arleo is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and a former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Karen Anne Gren Scholer is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas.
Claria Denise Horn Boom is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky. She is a member of the United States Sentencing Commission.
Robert Earl Wier is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
Elizabeth Lee "Lisa" Branch is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She was a judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals from 2012 to 2018.
Justin Reed Walker is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2020 as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He previously was a U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky from 2019 to 2020.
Hala Yalda Jarbou is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan. She is the first Chaldean federal judge.
Katherine Amber Crytzer is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.