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Martha Maria Pacold
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Active service.
Confirmed 87 to 3Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Donald J. Trump
- Nominated
- May 21, 2019
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- Not published yet
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), June 20, 2019
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 87 to 3
- Confirmed
- July 31, 2019
- Commissioned
- August 16, 2019
- American Bar Association rating
- Qualified
Born 1979, 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 Northern District of Illinois
Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Law clerk, Hon. A. Raymond Randolph, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 2002-2003
- Law clerk, Hon. Jay S. Bybee, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2003-2004
- Law clerk, Hon. Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States, 2004-2005
- Counsel to the attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice, 2005-2006
- Special assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Virginia, 2006-2007
- Private practice, Chicago, Illinois, 2007-2017
- U.S. Department of the Treasury, 2017-2019; executive secretary, 2017; deputy general counsel, 2017-2019
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