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Paul Borman
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United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Tenure
2023 - Present
Years in position
2
Prior offices:
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Years in office: 1994 - 2023
Predecessor:Stewart Newblatt
Successor:Robert White (Nonpartisan)
Education
Bachelor's
University of Michigan, 1959
Law
University of Michigan Law School, 1962
Graduate
Yale Law School, 1964
Personal
Birthplace
Detroit, MI
Contact


Paul D. Borman (b.1939) is afederal judge onsenior status with theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He joined the court in 1994 after being nominated by PresidentBill Clinton. He assumed senior status on August 1, 2023.[1]

Early life and education

  • University of Michigan, B.A., 1959
  • University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1962
  • Yale Law School, LL.M., 1964[1]

Professional career

  • 1994-2023: Judge,United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
  • 1981-1994: Adjunct lecturer, University of Michigan Law School
  • 1979-1994: Chief federal defender, Legal Aid & Defender Association of Detroit,Michigan
  • 1974-1975: Assistant county prosecutor, Wayne County,Michigan
  • 1968-1979: Professor, Wayne State University Law School
  • 1968-1973: Assistant dean, Wayne State University Law School
  • 1967-1968: Special counsel to the Mayor of Detroit,Michigan
  • 1967: Special counsel, Mayor's Development Team, Detroit,Michigan
  • 1965-1967: Vice-president and house counsel, Borman Food Stores, Inc.
  • 1964-1965: Assistant U.S. attorney
  • 1962-1963: Staff attorney, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights[1]

Judicial career

Eastern District of Michigan

On the recommendation of U.S. Senators Carl Levin and Donald Riegle, Jr., Borman was nominated by PresidentBill Clinton onMarch 24, 1994, to a seat vacated byStewart Newblatt. Borman was confirmed by the Senate onAugust 9, 1994, on a majority voice vote, and received commission onAugust 10, 1994. He assumed senior status on August 1, 2023.[1][2][1]

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Officeholder

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

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  • Footnotes

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    Active judges

       •  Thomas Ludington  •  Mark Goldsmith  •  Stephen Murphy (Michigan)  •  Shalina Kumar  •  Linda V. Parker  •  Laurie Michelson  •  Terrence Berg  •  Judith Ellen Levy  •  Matthew Frederick Leitman  •  Jonathan Grey  •  Frances Kay Behm  •  Susan DeClercq  •  Brandy McMillion  •  Robert White (Michigan)

    Senior judges

    Bernard Friedman  •  Paul Borman  •  Robert Cleland  •  Nancy Edmunds  •  Denise Hood  •  David M. Lawson  •  John O'Meara (Michigan)  •  George Steeh  •  Gershwin Drain  •  

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    Damon Keith  •  Victoria Roberts  •  Marianne Battani  •  Anna Taylor  •  Avern Cohn  •  Sean Cox (Michigan)  •  Patrick Duggan  •  John Feikens  •  Paul Gadola  •  Arthur Tarnow  •  Lawrence Zatkoff  •  Cornelia Kennedy  •  Ralph Guy  •  Richard Suhrheinrich  •  Horace Gilmore  •  Stewart Newblatt  •  Ross Wilkins  •  Barbara Hackett  •  Russell Harvey (Michigan)  •  George La Plata  •  Henry Billings Brown (U.S. Supreme Court)  •  John Wesley Longyear  •  Henry Harrison Swan  •  Alexis Caswell Angell  •  Arthur Tuttle  •  Charles Casper Simons  •  Edward Julien Moinet  •  Ernest Aloysius O'Brien  •  Arthur Lederle  •  Frank Picard  •  Wade Hampton McCree, Jr.  •  James Churchill  •  Mona Majzoub  •  Patricia Boyle  •  Robert DeMascio  •  Ralph Freeman  •  Lawrence Gubow  •  Frederick Kaess  •  Arthur Koscinski  •  Theodore Levin (Michigan)  •  Thaddeus Machrowicz  •  Clifford O'Sullivan  •  Philip Pratt (Michigan)  •  Stephen Roth (Michigan)  •  Talbot Smith  •  Thomas Thornton  •  George Woods (federal judge)  •  Stephanie Dawkins Davis  •  

    Former Chief judges

    Damon Keith  •  Bernard Friedman  •  Anna Taylor  •  Julian Cook  •  Sean Cox (Michigan)  •  John Feikens  •  Lawrence Zatkoff  •  Cornelia Kennedy  •  Arthur Lederle  •  Frank Picard  •  James Churchill  •  Ralph Freeman  •  Frederick Kaess  •  Theodore Levin (Michigan)  •  Philip Pratt (Michigan)  •  


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