Emmet Sullivan | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
| Assumed office April 3, 2021 | |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia | |
| In office June 16, 1994 – April 3, 2021 | |
| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Louis F. Oberdorfer |
| Succeeded by | Jia M. Cobb |
| Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals | |
| In office 1992–1994 | |
| Appointed by | George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | James A. Belson |
| Succeeded by | Inez Smith Reid |
| Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia | |
| In office 1984–1992 | |
| Appointed by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Position created[1] |
| Succeeded by | Brook Hedge |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Emmet Gael Sullivan June 4, 1947 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Education | Howard University (BA, JD) |
Emmet Gael Sullivan (born June 4, 1947)[2] is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.[3]
He earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Howard University. He worked in private practice for more than a decade at Houston & Gardner, becoming a name partner in 1980. He was appointed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia in 1984 by President Ronald Reagan, to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals as an Associate Judge in 1992 by President George H. W. Bush, and to the federal bench in 1994 by President Bill Clinton.[4]
- ^ Position created by act of Congress, May 18, 1984 JNC (September 30, 2018). "District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission Report of Recommendations and Chief Judge Designations and Presidential Appointments to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and the Superior Court of the District of Columbia May 8, 1975 to September 30, 2013" (PDF). Judicial Nomination Commission of the District of Columbia. p. 13. Retrieved February 13, 2019.
- ^ Affairs, United States Congress Senate Committee on Governmental (1984). Nominations for Superior Court of the District of Columbia: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on the Nominations of Emmet G. Sullivan, Colleen C. Kollar-Kotelly, Rufus G. King III, Susan R. Holmes, Noel A. Kramer, Robert I. Richter, and Robert S. Tignor, to be Associate Judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, September 11, 1984. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 10.
- ^ "Emmet G. Sullivan". US District Court. Archived from the original on June 18, 2008. Retrieved June 28, 2008.
- ^ "Report of District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission" (PDF).