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Mary Elizabeth Phillips
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. Active service.
Confirmed 95 to 2Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama
- Nominated
- June 7, 2011
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- September 20, 2011
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), October 13, 2011
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 95 to 2
- Confirmed
- March 6, 2012
- Commissioned
- March 22, 2012
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1969, 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
- Legislative assistant, U.S. Rep. Patsy Ann Danner of Missouri, 1993-1994
- Assistant prosecutor, Jackson County, Missouri, 1997-2001
- Private practice, Leawood, Kansas, 2001-2008
- Special prosecutor, Circuit Court of Missouri, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, 2002-2008
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Western District of Missouri, 2008-2009; litigation consultant, 2008
- U.S. attorney for the Western District of Missouri, 2009-2012
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