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Paula Xinis
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Incumbent
Assumed office May 18, 2016
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Deborah K. Chasanow
Personal details
Born	Panagiota Xinis 1968 (age 55–56) Mineola, New York, U.S.
Education	University of Virginia (BA) Yale University (JD)

Paula Xinis (born Panagiota Xinis, 1968) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.

Biography

Xinis is of Greek ancestry. She 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 from 2006 to 2011. She served at the law firm of Murphy, Falcon & Murphy in Baltimore, Maryland, as a senior trial attorney from 2011 and as a partner from 2013 to 2016. She practiced both civil and criminal litigation.

Federal judicial service

On March 26, 2015, President Barack 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 assumed senior status on October 3, 2014. Her nomination was reported from the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 17, 2015, by a voice vote. On May 16, 2016, the Senate confirmed her nomination by a 53–34 vote. She received her judicial commission on May 18, 2016.

References

1. "Obituary for Betty Xinis".
2. "President Obama Nominates Two to Serve on the United States District Courts". whitehouse.gov. 26 March 2015 – via National Archives.
3. ^ Paula Xinis at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
4. "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate". whitehouse.gov. 26 March 2015 – via National Archives.
5. "Results of Executive Business Meeting – September 17, 2015". www.judiciary.senate.gov.
6. "On the Nomination (Confirmation Paula Xinis, of Maryland, to be U.S. District Judge)". www.senate.gov.
7. Jalonick, Mary Clare (May 16, 2016). "The Senate has confirmed lawyer Paula Xinis to be a federal judge in Maryland". Associated Press News. Retrieved May 16, 2016.

External links

• Paula Xinis at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
• Paula Xinis at Ballotpedia

• 1968 births
• Living people
• 21st-century American judges
• 21st-century American women judges
• American women lawyers
• Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland
• People from Mineola, New York
• United States district court judges appointed by Barack Obama
• University of Virginia alumni
• Yale Law School alumni
• Public defenders