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Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Active service.
Confirmed 49 to 47Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- April 30, 2024
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- May 22, 2024
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), July 11, 2024
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 49 to 47
- Confirmed
- December 10, 2024
- Commissioned
- December 16, 2024
- American Bar Association rating
- Qualified
Born 1969, 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
- Special assistant, Vice Chair Cruz Reynoso, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1995-1998
- Trial attorney, Voting Section, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1998-2000
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Central District of California, 2000-2006
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Los Angeles, California, 2006-2011; western regional counsel, 2006; national vice president and director of litigation, 2006-2011
- Criminal Justice Act supervising attorney, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2011-2016
- Judge, State Bar Court of California, 2016-2024; supervising judge, 2020-2022
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