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Araceli Martínez-Olguín
Judge of theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of California
Assumed office
March 3, 2023
Appointed byJoe Biden
Preceded byJeffrey White
Personal details
Born1977 (age 46–47)
Mexico City,Mexico
EducationPrinceton University(BA)
University of California, Berkeley(JD)

Araceli Martínez-Olguín(born 1977)[1]is an American lawyer fromCaliforniawho serves as aUnited States district judgeof theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Education[edit]

Martínez-Olguín received aBachelor of Artsfrom thePrinceton School of Public and International Affairsin 1999 and aJuris Doctorfrom theUC Berkeley School of Lawin 2004.[2][3]

Career[edit]

From 2004 to 2006, Martínez-Olguín served as alaw clerkfor JudgeDavid Brionesof theUnited States District Court for the Western District of Texas.From 2016 to 2017, she was an attorney for theUnited States Department of Education'sOffice for Civil Rights.From 2017 to 2018, she served as the managing attorney at the Immigrants' Rights Project atCommunity Legal ServicesinEast Palo Alto, California.[2]From 2018 to 2023, she was the supervising attorney at theNational Immigration Law Center.[4][failed verification]She has also worked at theACLUand at theLegal Aid Society-Employment Law Center.[2][3]Martínez-Olguín was a member of theAmerican Constitution SocietyBay AreaLawyer Chapter's board of directors from 2015 to 2022.[5]

Federal judicial service[edit]

On July 29, 2022, PresidentJoe Bidenannounced his intent to nominate Martínez-Olguín to serve as aUnited States district judgeof theUnited States District Court for the Northern District of California.[2]On August 1, 2022, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Martínez-Olguín to the seat vacated by JudgeJeffrey White,who assumedsenior statuson February 1, 2021.[6]On September 21, 2022, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[7]On December 1, 2022, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote.[8]On January 3, 2023, her nomination was returned to the President underRule XXXI, Paragraph 6of theUnited States Senate;she was renominated later the same day.[9]On February 2, 2023, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–9 vote.[10]On February 28, 2023, the Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 48–47 vote.[11]Later that day, her nomination was confirmed by a 49–48 vote, with the Vice PresidentKamala Harrisvoting in the affirmative.[12]She received her judicial commission on March 3, 2023.[13]She is the secondLatinato serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.[14]

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References[edit]

  1. ^"Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees"(PDF).United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.RetrievedSeptember 19,2022.
  2. ^abcd"President Biden Names Twenty-Fourth Round of Judicial Nominees"(Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. July 29, 2022.RetrievedJuly 29,2022.
  3. ^ab"Araceli Martinez-Olguin".American Civil Liberties Union.RetrievedJuly 29,2022.
  4. ^"NILC Staff".National Immigration Law Center.RetrievedJuly 29,2022.
  5. ^Rodriguez, Katherine (February 28, 2023)."Araceli Martínez-Olguín Is Confirmed for Federal Judgeship in Northern District of California"(PDF).United States Courts for the Ninth Circuit.Retrieved3 August2023.
  6. ^"Nominations Sent to the Senate"(Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. August 1, 2022.
  7. ^"Nominations".Washington, D.C.:United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.September 21, 2022.
  8. ^"Results of Executive Business Meeting – December 1, 2022"(PDF).United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.RetrievedDecember 1,2022.
  9. ^"Nominations Sent to the Senate"(Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. January 3, 2023.
  10. ^"Results of Executive Business Meeting – February 2, 2023"(PDF).United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.RetrievedFebruary 2,2023.
  11. ^"On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture: Araceli Martinez-Olguin to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California)".United States Senate.February 28, 2023.RetrievedFebruary 28,2023.
  12. ^"On the Nomination (Confirmation: Araceli Martinez-Olguin, of California, to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California)".United States Senate.February 28, 2023.RetrievedFebruary 28,2023.
  13. ^Araceli Martínez-Olguínat theBiographical Directory of Federal Judges,a publication of theFederal Judicial Center.
  14. ^DiFeliciantonio, Chase (July 29, 2022)."Biden selects two judicial nominees for Northern District bench, continuing streak of diverse appointments".San Francisco Chronicle.RetrievedJuly 29,2022.

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