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Nicholas Jon Ganjei
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Active service.
Confirmed 51 to 45Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Donald J. Trump
- Nominated
- January 5, 2026
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- Not published yet
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), January 15, 2026
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 51 to 45
- Confirmed
- February 3, 2026
- Commissioned
- March 10, 2026
- American Bar Association rating
- 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. Ralph R. Erickson, U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota, 2005-2007
- Adjunct professor, University of North Dakota School of Law, 2007
- Law clerk, Hon. Richard Allen Griffin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2007-2008
- Assistant U.S. attorney, District of New Mexico, 2008-2020
- Adjunct professor and lecturer, University of New Mexico, 2012-2018
- Counsel, Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice (on detail), 2018-2019
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Texas, 2020-2022; first assistant U.S. attorney, 2020-2021; acting U.S. attorney, 2021
- Chief counsel, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, 2022-2025
- U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas, 2025-2026
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