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Monica Ramirez Almadani

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Active service.

Confirmed 51 to 44Confirmed from the official record
Appointed by
Joseph R. Biden
Nominated
January 23, 2023
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
February 15, 2023
Committee action
Reported (favorably), April 20, 2023
Senate vote
Recorded vote, 51 to 44
Confirmed
November 9, 2023
Commissioned
November 21, 2023
American Bar Association rating
Well Qualified

Born 1979, 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. Warren J. Ferguson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2004-2005
  • Immigrants' Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, San Francisco, California, 2005-2009; Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2005-2007; staff attorney, 2007-2009
  • U.S. Department of Justice, 2009-2012; counsel to the assistant attorney general, Civil Rights Division, 2009-2011; senior counsel and deputy chief of staff to the deputy attorney general, 2011-2012
  • Assistant U.S. attorney, Central District of California, 2012-2015
  • Special assistant attorney general, State of California, 2015-2017
  • Private practice, Los Angeles, California, 2017-2019
  • Visiting assistant clinical professor of law and co-director, Immigrant Rights Clinic, University of California, Irvine School of Law, 2019-2021
  • President and chief executive officer, Public Counsel, Los Angeles, California, 2021-2023

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