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Brenda Kay Sannes
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York. Active service.
Confirmed 96 to 0Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama
- Nominated
- May 8, 2014
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- June 24, 2014
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), July 17, 2014
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 96 to 0
- Confirmed
- November 20, 2014
- Commissioned
- November 21, 2014
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1958, 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. Jerome Farris, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1983-1984
- Private practice, Los Angeles, California, 1984-1988
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Central District of California, 1988-1995; high intensity drug trafficking coordinator and deputy chief, Narcotics Section, 1994
- Assistant U.S. attorney, Northern District of New York, 1995-2014; chief, Appellate Division, 2005-2014; Syracuse office manager, 2010-2014
- Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 2026-present
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