Janet C. Hall

Janet C. Hall


Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
Incumbent
Assumed office September 9, 2013
Preceded by	Alvin W. Thompson
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
Incumbent
Assumed office September 18, 1997
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	T. F. Gilroy Daly

Personal details
Born	1948 (age 68–69) Lowell, Massachusetts
Education	Mount Holyoke College (A.B.) New York University School of Law (J.D.)

Janet C. Hall (born 1948) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. She sits in New Haven.

Education and career

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Hall received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1970. She went on to earn a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law three years later. After obtaining her J.D., Hall entered private practice until 1975. Then, she landed a position as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, which she held until 1979. She was then a Special Assistant United States Attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia in 1979. From 1980 to 1997, she was in private practice in Hartford, Connecticut.

Hall was nominated by President Bill Clinton on June 5, 1997, to a seat vacated by T. F. Gilroy Daly. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 11, 1997, and received her commission on September 18, 1997. She became Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut on September 9, 2013.^[1]

Legal offices
Preceded by T. F. Gilroy Daly	Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut 1997–present	Incumbent
Preceded by Alvin W. Thompson	Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut 2013–present	Incumbent

District judges of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Connecticut	Hall Thompson Underhill Bryant Shea Meyer Bolden 1 seat vacant
E. New York	Irizarry Bianco Cogan Mauskopf Matsumoto Kuntz Brodie Chen Azrack Donnelly Hall 4 seats vacant
N. New York	Suddaby Hurd D'Agostino Sannes 1 seat vacant
S. New York	McMahon Koeltl Pauley Daniels Swain Karas Sullivan Seibel Gardephe Briccetti Oetken Engelmayer Forrest Nathan Ramos Carter Furman Abrams Schofield Failla Torres Roman Broderick Woods Caproni 3 seats vacant
W. New York	Geraci Wolford Vilardo 1 seat vacant
Vermont	Reiss Crawford

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