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Jinsook Ohta
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. Active service.
Confirmed 47 to 24Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- September 30, 2021
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- November 3, 2021
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), December 2, 2021
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 47 to 24
- Confirmed
- December 17, 2021
- Commissioned
- December 27, 2021
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1976, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it.
Source: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges · This judge’s entry. Our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 92b677f26553b479.
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Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Law clerk, Hon. Barry Ted Moskowitz, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, 2001-2002, 2007-2008
- Private practice, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, 2002-2003
- Private practice, San Diego, California, 2003-2006
- Visiting assistant professor of law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, 2006-2007
- Deputy attorney general, State of California, 2011-2020; supervising deputy attorney general, 2019-2020
- Judge, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego, 2020-2021
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