The United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia is a United States district court.
The United States Sentencing Commission is an independent agency of the judicial branch of the U.S. federal government. It is responsible for articulating the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines for the federal courts. The Commission promulgates the Federal Sentencing Guidelines,which replaced the prior system of indeterminate sentencing that allowed trial judges to give sentences ranging from probation to the maximum statutory punishment for the offense. It is headquartered in Washington,D.C.
John Paul was a United States representative from Virginia and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.
Diane Joyce Humetewa is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and was the United States Attorney for the District of Arizona,serving in that position from December 2007 to August 2009. Confirmed in 2014 as the first Native American woman and enrolled tribal member to serve as a federal judge,Humetewa,a Hopi,is one of six Native Americans in history to serve in this position. Humetewa is also a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Humetewa has served as counsel to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and to the Deputy Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice,as a member of the United States Sentencing Guideline Commission,Native American Advisory Committee,and as an Appellate Court Judge for the Hopi Tribe,of which she is an enrolled member.
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated over 400 individuals for federal judgeships during his presidency. Of these nominations,Congress confirmed 329 judgeships,173 during the 111th &112th Congresses and 156 during the 113th and 114th Congresses.
Carte Patrick Goodwin is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia in 2010. A member of the Democratic Party,he was appointed by Governor Joe Manchin on July 16,2010 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Robert Byrd. He chose not to seek election to finish the unexpired term of Robert Byrd. Goodwin left office on November 15,2010 when Joe Manchin was sworn in after being elected to the Senate.
John Palmer Fishwick was an American railroad executive and chief executive of Norfolk and Western Railway.
John Joseph Tuchi is an American lawyer who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Michelle Kwok Lee,born 1965 in Santa Clara,California,was vice president of Amazon Web Services and a former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Dana James Boente ( Bent-Ë) is an American attorney who served as General Counsel of the FBI from January 2018 to 2020,United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia from September 2013 to January 2018,and as the Acting United States Attorney General from January to February 2017. He also served as acting assistant attorney general for the National Security Division of the United States Department of Justice. On October 27,2017,Boente announced he would resign from the Department of Justice after a successor is in place. On January 23,2018,Boente was named general counsel to the FBI by the director Christopher A. Wray,filling the vacancy after James Baker's reassignment to another part of the bureau.
John Michael Vazquez is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Clare Elizabeth Connors is an American lawyer who has served as the United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii since 2022. She served as the 16th attorney general of Hawaii from January 3,2019 to December 10,2021. She was also a former nominee for United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.
Andrew Mark Luger is an American attorney and lawyer who has served as the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota since 2022. He previously served in that role from 2014 to 2017.
Thomas Lee Kirsch II is an American attorney and jurist who has served as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since December 2020. He was previously the United States attorney for the Northern District of Indiana from October 2017 to December 2020.
Andrew Stephen Oldham is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and former General Counsel to Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Thomas Tullidge Cullen is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. He was formerly United States Attorney for the same district.
Martha Maria Pacold is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Nicholas William Brown is an American lawyer who served as United States attorney for the Western District of Washington from October 2021 to June 21,2023.
Christopher Robert Kavanaugh is an American attorney who is the United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia.
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.
