Anne Hwang

American judge (born 1975)

Anne Hwang (born 1975) is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California since 2024. She previously served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court from 2019 to 2024.

Education

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Hwang received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 1997 and a Juris Doctor from the USC Gould School of Law in 2002.

Career

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Hwang started her legal career, working as a litigation associate at Irell & Manella LLP in Century City

from 2002 to 2006. From 2006 to 2018, she served as a deputy federal public defender in the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California. On December 7, 2018, Governor Jerry Brown appointed Hwang to serve as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court .

Federal judicial service

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On April 28, 2024, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Hwang to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California . On April 30, 2024, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Hwang to the seat vacated by Judge George H. Wu , who assumed senior status on November 3, 2023. On May 22, 2024, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee . On July 11, 2024, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–10 vote. On November 20, 2024, the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 51–48 vote. On December 2, 2024, her nomination was confirmed by a 48–43 vote. She received her judicial commission on December 6, 2024.

On June 26, 2026, Hwang would declare a mistrial in Jonathan Rinderknecht's federal arson trial related to the January 2025 Palisades fire .

See also

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• List of Asian American jurists

References

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   "Governor Brown Appoints 13 Superior Court Judges" (Press release). Office of the Governor. December 7, 2018. Archived from the original on May 28, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2024.

2. ↑ "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Archived from the original on May 21, 2024. Retrieved May 21, 2024.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web "Template:Cite web") }}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )

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   "President Biden Names Forty-Eighth Round of Judicial Nominees" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. April 24, 2024. Retrieved April 24, 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

4. ↑ "Senate Confirms LA County Judge Anne Hwang for Federal Judgeship in Central District of California" (PDF). cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov. 2024-12-02. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2025-03-05. Retrieved 2026-01-19.

5. ↑ "Nominations" . Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. May 21, 2024.

6. ↑ "Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Eight Judicial Nominations To The Full Senate" (Press release). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. July 11, 2024. Retrieved July 11, 2024.

7. ↑ "On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture: Anne Hwang to be U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California)" . United States Senate. November 20, 2024. Retrieved November 20, 2024.

8. ↑ "On the Nomination (Confirmation: Anne Hwang, of California, to be U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California)" . United States Senate. December 2, 2024. Retrieved December 2, 2024.

9. ↑ Anne Hwang at the _Biographical Directory of Federal Judges _, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .

10. ↑ {{cite news}url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pacific-palisades-fire-jury-verdict-rcna351208|title=Mistrial declared in trial over deadly, destructive Palisades Fire

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