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Brendan Abell Hurson
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Active service.
Confirmed 53 to 44Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- March 21, 2023
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- April 18, 2023
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), May 11, 2023
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 53 to 44
- Confirmed
- October 4, 2023
- Commissioned
- October 6, 2023
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1977, 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. Margaret B. Seymour, U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, 2005-2006
- Private practice, Baltimore, Maryland, 2006-2007
- Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland, 2007-2017, 2018-2022; assistant federal public defender, 2007-2014, 2018; senior litigation counsel, 2015-2017, 2019-2022
- Adjunct professor, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, 2011-2016
- Assistant federal public defender, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2017-2018
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