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Sarah French Russell
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. Active service.
Confirmed 50 to 44Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- January 8, 2024
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- Not published yet
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), January 18, 2024
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 50 to 44
- Confirmed
- November 19, 2024
- Commissioned
- November 26, 2024
- 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. Michael B. Mukasey, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2002-2003
- Law clerk, Hon. Chester J. Straub, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2003-2005
- Assistant federal public defender, District of Connecticut, 2005-2007
- Associate research scholar, lecturer, and director of Arthur Liman Public Interest Program, Yale Law School, 2007-2010
- Quinnipiac University School of Law, 2011-2024
- Assistant professor, 2011-2013
- Associate professor, 2013-2015
- Professor, 2015-2024
- Director of Criminal Law and Advocacy Concentration, 2015-2024
- Member of Executive Committee, 2016-2024
- Director of Legal Clinic, 2019-2024
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