Julia M. Lipez | |
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| Justice of the Maine Superior Court | |
| Assumed office 2022 | |
| Appointed by | Janet Mills |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Julia Martha Lipez 1980 (age 43–44) Portland, Maine, U.S. |
| Spouse | Nolan Ladislav Reichl |
| Parent |
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| Education | Amherst College (BA) Stanford University (JD) |
Julia Martha Lipez (born 1980)[1] is an American lawyer who has served as a justice of the Maine Superior Court since 2022. She is a nominee to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Education
editLipez received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Amherst College in 2002 and Juris Doctor, with distinction, from Stanford Law School in 2006.[2]
Career
editFrom 2006 to 2007, she served as a law clerk for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. From 2007 to 2011, she was an associate and then a senior associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in New York City. From 2011 to 2022, Lipez worked as an assistant United States attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maine, where she served as appellate chief from 2019 to 2022.[2] Since 2022, she has served as a justice on the Maine Superior Court.[3]
Nomination to court of appeals
editOn May 23, 2024, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Lipez to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. On June 4, 2024, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Lipez to the seat being vacated by Judge William J. Kayatta Jr., who announced his intent to assume senior status upon confirmation of a successor.[4] On June 20, 2024, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[5] During her confirmation hearing, she was questioned by Republican senators over her sentencing in cases involving abuse against children. These sentencing decisions included suspending half of a sentence for an adult man who was found guilty of sexually abusing a 4-year-old and a 9-year-old child and suspending six years of a 10-year sentence for a woman who allowed drug trafficking operations to occur in her home, leading to her 14-month-old child's death from fentanyl exposure.[6] On August 1, 2024, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–10 vote.[7][8] Her nomination is pending before the United States Senate.
Personal life
editShe has been married to her husband, Nolan Ladislav Reichl since 2010. She is the daughter of Judge Kermit Lipez.[9]
References
edit- ^ "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved June 19, 2024.
- ^ a b "President Biden Names Fiftieth Round of Judicial Nominees" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. May 23, 2024. Retrieved May 23, 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Harrison, Judy (March 15, 2022). "Janet Mills taps Bangor probate judge, western Maine DA and federal prosecutor as judges". Bangor Daily News. Retrieved May 23, 2024.
- ^ "Press Release: Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. June 4, 2024.
- ^ "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. June 19, 2024.
- ^ Headley, Tiana. "Biden First Circuit Pick Grilled on Child Abuse Case Sentences". Bloomberg Law. Retrieved June 20, 2024.
- ^ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – August 1, 2024" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
- ^ Monyak, Suzanne. "First, Sixth Circuit Judicial Nominees Advanced by Senate Panel". Bloomberg Law. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
- ^ "Julia Lipez, Nolan Reichl". The New York Times. July 2, 2010. Retrieved May 23, 2024.
- 1980 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American judges
- 21st-century American lawyers
- 21st-century American women judges
- 21st-century American women lawyers
- Amherst College alumni
- Assistant United States Attorneys
- Lawyers from Portland, Maine
- Maine state court judges
- Stanford Law School alumni
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr associates
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