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Paula Xinis
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Active service.
Confirmed 53 to 34Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama
- Nominated
- March 26, 2015
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- July 22, 2015
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), September 17, 2015
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 53 to 34
- Confirmed
- May 16, 2016
- Commissioned
- May 18, 2016
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1968, 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. Diana Gribbon Motz, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1997-1998
- Assistant federal public defender, District of Maryland, 1998-2011; director of training, 2006-2011; research and writing attorney supervisor, 2008-2011
- Complaint examiner, District of Columbia Office of Police Complaints, 2005-2010
- Private practice, Baltimore, Maryland, 2011-2016
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