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Joan Louise Larsen
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Active service.
Confirmed 60 to 38Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Donald J. Trump
- Nominated
- May 8, 2017
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- September 6, 2017
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), October 5, 2017
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 60 to 38
- Confirmed
- November 1, 2017
- Commissioned
- November 2, 2017
- 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. David B. Sentelle, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1993-1994
- Law clerk, Hon. Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States, 1994-1995
- Private practice, Washington, D.C., 1995-1997
- Visiting assistant professor, Northwestern University School of Law, 1998
- University of Michigan Law School, 1998-2001, 2003- ; visiting professor of law, 1998-2001; special counsel and lecturer in law, 2003-2015; adjunct professor of law, 2015-
- Deputy assistant attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, 2002-2003
- Visiting assistant professor, University of Iowa College of Law, 2006
- Justice, Michigan Supreme Court, 2015-2017
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