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Dena Michaela Coggins
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. Active service.
Confirmed 50 to 44Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- February 8, 2024
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- March 6, 2024
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), April 11, 2024
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 50 to 44
- Confirmed
- May 22, 2024
- Commissioned
- September 18, 2024
- 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
- Private practice, San Francisco, California, 2007-2012
- Private practice, Sacramento, California, 2012-2013
- Deputy legal affairs secretary, Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr., California, 2013-2015
- Administrative law judge, California Office of Administrative Hearings, 2015-2017, 2018-2021; Special Education Division, 2015-2017; General Jurisdiction Division, 2018-2021
- Supervising attorney, California Victim Compensation Board, 2017-2018
- Judge, Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento, 2021-2024; presiding judge of the juvenile court, 2023-2024
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