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Stephanie Dawn Thacker
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Active service.
Confirmed 91 to 3Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama
- Nominated
- September 8, 2011
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- October 4, 2011
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), November 3, 2011
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 91 to 3
- Confirmed
- April 16, 2012
- Commissioned
- April 17, 2012
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1965, 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
- Private practice, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1990-1992
- Assistant attorney general, Environmental Division, State of West Virginia, 1992
- Private practice, Charleston, West Virginia, 1992-1994, 2006-2012
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of West Virginia, 1994-1999
- Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, U.S. Department of Justice, 1999-2006; trial attorney, 1999-2002; deputy chief for litigation, 2002-2004; principal deputy chief, 2004-2006
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