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Elizabeth Wilson Hanes
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Active service.
Confirmed 59 to 37Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- May 19, 2022
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- June 22, 2022
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), July 21, 2022
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 59 to 37
- Confirmed
- August 2, 2022
- Commissioned
- August 5, 2022
- American Bar Association rating
- Qualified
Born 1978, 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. Joseph R. Goodwin, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, 2007-2008
- Law clerk, Hon. Robert B. King, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2008-2009
- Assistant federal public defender, Eastern District of Virginia, 2009-2016
- Adjunct professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2014-2016
- Adjunct professor, University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law, 2014, 2017
- Private practice, Richmond, Virginia, 2016-2020
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