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Eric Chunyee Tung
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Active service.
Confirmed 52 to 45Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Donald J. Trump
- Nominated
- July 15, 2025
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- July 30, 2025
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), September 11, 2025
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 52 to 45
- Confirmed
- November 5, 2025
- Commissioned
- November 7, 2025
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1984, 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. Neil M. Gorsuch, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 2010-2011
- Bristow Fellow, Office of the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, 2011-2012
- Law clerk, Hon. Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States, 2012-2013
- Private practice, Los Angeles, California, 2014-2016, 2019-2025
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Central District of California, 2016-2017
- Counsel, Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice, 2017
- Law clerk, Hon. Neil M. Gorsuch, Supreme Court of the United States, 2017-2018
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