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Beryl Alaine Howell
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Senior status since February 1, 2024.
Confirmed by voice voteConfirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama
- Nominated
- July 14, 2010
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- July 28, 2010
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), September 23, 2010
- Senate vote
- Voice vote, no count printed
- Confirmed
- December 22, 2010
- Commissioned
- December 27, 2010
- Senior status
- Since February 1, 2024
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1956, 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. Dickinson R. Debevoise, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1983-1984
- Private practice, New York City, 1985-1987
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of New York, 1987-1993
- U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 1993-2003; senior counsel, 1993-1996; general counsel, 1997-2003
- Executive managing director and general counsel, Stroz Friedberg, 2003-2009
- Commissioner, U.S. Sentencing Commission, 2004-2013
- Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 2016-2023
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