Janet C. Hall

Janet C. Hall


Chief Judge of 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 67–68) Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S.
Alma mater	Mount Holyoke College (A.B.) New York University School of Law (J.D.)

Janet C. Hall (born 1948) is a United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. She sits in New Haven. 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]

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, she received an A.B. from Mount Holyoke College in 1970. She went on to earn a J.D. 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 U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia in 1979. From 1980 to 1997, she was in private practice in Hartford, Connecticut.

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

Currently active district judges of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Connecticut	Hall Chatigny Thompson Underhill Bryant Shea Meyer Bolden

E. New York	Irizarry Bianco Vitaliano Cogan Mauskopf Matsumoto Kuntz Brodie Chen Azrack Donnelly Hall 3 seats vacant

N. New York	Suddaby Hurd D'Agostino Sannes 1 seat vacant

S. New York	McMahon Preska Koeltl Pauley Daniels Swain Castel Karas Sullivan Seibel Gardephe Briccetti Oetken Engelmayer Forrest Nathan Ramos Carter Furman Abrams Schofield Failla Torres Roman Broderick Woods Caproni 1 seat vacant

W. New York	Geraci Wolford Vilardo 1 seat vacant

Vermont	Reiss Crawford

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