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Patti B. Saris
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Senior status since December 2, 2024.
Confirmed by voice voteConfirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- William J. Clinton
- Nominated
- October 27, 1993
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- November 18, 1993
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), November 18, 1993
- Senate vote
- Voice vote, no count printed
- Confirmed
- November 20, 1993
- Commissioned
- November 24, 1993
- Senior status
- Since December 2, 2024
- American Bar Association rating
- Qualified
Born 1951, 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. Robert Braucher, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, 1976-1977
- Private practice, Boston, Massachusetts, 1977-1979, 1981-1982
- Staff counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1979-1981
- Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Massachusetts, 1982-1986; chief, Civil Division, 1984-1986
- Associate justice, Massachusetts Superior Court, 1989-1993
- Chair, U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2010-2017
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