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Dana Lewis Christensen
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Montana. Senior status since November 7, 2025.
Confirmed by voice voteConfirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama
- Nominated
- May 4, 2011
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- September 7, 2011
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), October 6, 2011
- Senate vote
- Voice vote, no count printed
- Confirmed
- December 5, 2011
- Commissioned
- December 6, 2011
- Senior status
- Since November 7, 2025
- American Bar Association rating
- Well 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.
All judges of the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana
Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Private practice, Billings, Montana, 1977-1981
- Private practice, Kalispell, Montana, 1981-2011
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