Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon (born 1969)[1] 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 State Bar Court of California from 2016 to 2024.
Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California | |
| Assumed office December 16, 2024 | |
| Appointed by | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Philip S. Gutierrez |
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| Born | Cynthia Ann Valenzuela 1969 (age 55–56) Tucson, Arizona, U.S. |
| Education | University of Arizona (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (JD) |
Education
editValenzuela Dixon earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Arizona in 1991 and a Juris Doctor from the UCLA School of Law in 1995.[2]
Career
editFrom 1995 to 1998, she was a special assistant at the United States Commission on Civil Rights in Los Angeles; from 1998 to 2000, she was a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C.; from 2000 to 2006, she served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. From 2006 to 2011, she was the head of national litigation at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in Los Angeles; from 2011 to 2016, she worked as the Criminal Justice Act Supervising Attorney for the Central District of California in Los Angeles. From 2016 to 2024, she served as a judge of the California State Bar Court in Los Angeles since her appointment by the California Supreme Court.[2]
Federal judicial service
editOn April 24, 2024, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Valenzuela Dixon 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 Valenzuela Dixon to the seat vacated by Judge Philip S. Gutierrez, who subsequently retired on October 22, 2024.[3] On May 22, 2024, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[4] On July 11, 2024, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–10 vote.[5] On November 20, 2024, the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 50–49 vote.[6] On December 10, 2024, her nomination was confirmed by a 49–47 vote.[7] She received her judicial commission on December 16, 2024.[8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved May 21, 2024.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "PN1650 — Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon — The Judiciary". congress.gov. April 30, 2024. Retrieved May 1, 2024.
- ^ "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. May 21, 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture: Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon to be U.S. District Judge for the Central District of California)". United States Senate. November 20, 2024. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
- ^ "On the Nomination (Confirmation: Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon, of California, to be United States District Judge for the Central District of California)". United States Senate. December 10, 2024. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
- ^ Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
External links
edit- Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.