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Gershwin Allen Drain
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Senior status since August 13, 2022.
Confirmed 55 to 41Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama
- Nominated
- November 17, 2011
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- February 29, 2012
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), March 29, 2012
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 55 to 41
- Confirmed
- August 2, 2012
- Commissioned
- August 8, 2012
- Senior status
- Since August 13, 2022
- American Bar Association rating
- Qualified
Born 1949, 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 Eastern District of Michigan
Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Legal research clerk, Michigan Circuit Court, Third Judicial Circuit, 1972-1973
- Attorney, Detroit [Michigan] Department of Transportation, 1973-1974
- Attorney, Federal Defenders Office, Detroit, Michigan, 1974-1986
- Judge, Michigan District Court, Thirty-Sixth Judicial District, 1986-1987
- Judge, Detroit [Michigan] Recorder's Court, 1987-1997
- Judge, Michigan Circuit Court, Third Judicial Circuit, 1997-2012
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