Anne Traum | |
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| Judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Nevada | |
| Assumed office April 7, 2022 | |
| Appointed by | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Robert Clive Jones |
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| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) Redwood City, California, U.S. |
| Education | Brown University (BA) University of California, Hastings (JD) |
Anne Rachel Traum (born 1969) is an American lawyer and academic who is aUnited States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Nevada. She was a professor of law at theWilliam S. Boyd School of Law in 2002 and again from 2008 to 2022.
Traum was born inRedwood City, California. She received aBachelor of Arts,cum laude, in 1991 fromBrown University. She received aJuris Doctor in 1996 from theUniversity of California, Hastings College of the Law.[1]
Traum began her legal career as alaw clerk to JudgeStanwood Duval of theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. She served as anAssistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada from 2000 to 2002, while on detail from the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of theUnited States Department of Justice, where she worked from 1998 to 2000. From 2002 to 2008, she served as anassistant federal public defender in the Federal Public Defender's Office inLas Vegas, Nevada.[1]
From 2008 to 2022, Traum was a professor of law at the William S. Boyd School of Law of theUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas, and she worked as the director of the Appellate Clinic from 2009 to 2022. She also served as the associate dean for experiential legal education from 2013 to 2015.[1] She served as special counsel in the Office for Access to Justice at theUnited States Department of Justice from 2015 to 2016.[2]
On April 28, 2016, PresidentBarack Obama nominated Traum to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, to the seat vacated by JudgeRobert Clive Jones, who assumedsenior status on February 1, 2016. Her nomination expired on January 3, 2017, with the end of the114th Congress.[3]
On November 3, 2021, PresidentJoe Biden announced his intent to nominate Traum to serve as a United States district judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Nevada.[2][4] On December 15, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before theSenate Judiciary Committee.[5] The confirmation hearings were particularly contentious when SenatorJohn Kennedy ofLouisiana asked her nine separate times whether criminal misbehavior should be forgiven in the name ofsocial justice, without receiving a direct yes or no response.[6] On January 3, 2022, her nomination was returned to the President underRule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of theUnited States Senate;[7] she was later renominated the same day.[8] On January 20, 2022, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote.[9] On March 16, 2022, the Senate invokedcloture on her nomination by a 52–45 vote.[10] On March 23, 2022, her nomination was confirmed by a 49–47 vote.[11] She received her judicial commission on April 7, 2022.[12]
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| Preceded by | Judge of theUnited States District Court for the District of Nevada 2022–present | Incumbent |