Anna Manasco | |
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| Judge of theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama | |
| Assumed office May 27, 2020 | |
| Appointed by | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Karon O. Bowdre |
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| Born | Anna Marie Manasco 1980 (age 45–46) Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. |
| Education | Emory University (BA) St Edmund Hall, Oxford (MSc,DPhil) Yale University (JD) |
Anna Marie Manasco[1] (born 1980)[2] is an American lawyer fromAlabama who is serving as aUnited States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Manasco attended theSaint James School and was the runner-up of the 1998Tournament of Champions inLincoln–Douglas debate.[3] Manasco earned herBachelor of Arts,summa cum laude, fromEmory University, herMaster of Science andDoctor of Philosophy from The University of Oxford, and herJuris Doctor fromYale Law School, where she served as an executive editor of theYale Law & Policy Review.[4]
Manasco served as alaw clerk to JudgeWilliam H. Pryor Jr. of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. From 2009 to 2020, she was a partner atBradley Arant Boult Cummings inBirmingham, Alabama, where her practice focused on trial strategy and appeals in complex commercial litigation. She had represented clients before theSupreme Court of the United States, numerous federal courts of appeals, and theSupreme Court of Alabama.[4]
On December 18, 2019, PresidentDonald Trump announced his intent to nominate Manasco to serve as aUnited States district judge for theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. On February 4, 2020, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Trump nominated Manasco to the seat to be vacated by JudgeKaron O. Bowdre, who subsequently assumedsenior status on April 25, 2020.[5] A hearing on her nomination before theSenate Judiciary Committee was held on February 12, 2020.[6] On March 12, 2020, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 15–6 vote.[7] On May 20, 2020, theUnited States Senate invokedcloture on her nomination by a 72–20 vote.[8] Her nomination was confirmed later that day by a 71–21 vote.[9] She received her judicial commission on May 27, 2020.[10]
Manasco was one of three judges on a special panel that ruled Alabama's proposed maps violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.[11] The three judge panel's ruling was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court inAllen v. Milligan.[12]
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