Paula Xinis
| Paula Xinis | |
|---|---|
| Personal details | |
| Born |
1968 (age 47–48) Mineola, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater |
University of Virginia Yale University |
Paula Xinis (born 1968) is a Maryland attorney in private practice and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Biography
Xinis received a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in 1991 from the University of Virginia. She received a Juris Doctor in 1997 from Yale Law School. She began her legal career as a law clerk for Judge Diana Gribbon Motz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, from 1997 to 1998. From 1998 to 2011, she served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender, serving as Director of Training for the office, 2006 to 2011. She has served at the law firm of Murphy, Falcon & Murphy in Baltimore, Maryland, as a senior trial attorney from 2011 and as a partner since 2013. She practices both civil and criminal litigation.[1]
Nomination to district court
On March 26, 2015, President Obama nominated Xinis to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, to the seat vacated by Judge Deborah K. Chasanow, who took senior status on October 3, 2014. Her nomination was reported from the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 17, 2015, by voice vote.[2][3] Her nomination is now pending before the full United States Senate.