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Anne Rachel Traum

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. Born 1969.

Federal judicial service

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Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada

Appointed by
Joseph R. Biden (Democratic)
Nominated
Jan 3, 2022
Senate vote
49 to 47
Confirmed
Mar 23, 2022
Commissioned
Apr 7, 2022

Education

  • A.B., Brown University, 1991
  • J.D., University of California Hastings College of the Law (now UC College of the Law, San Francisco), 1996

Career

  • Law clerk, Hon. Stanwood R. Duval, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1996-1998
  • Attorney, Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1998-2000
  • Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Nevada, 2000-2002
  • Assistant federal public defender, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2002-2008
  • Faculty, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, 2002, 2008-2022
  • Adjunct professor of law, 2002
  • Associate professor of law, 2008-2014
  • Director, Appellate Clinic, 2009-2022
  • Associate dean for experimental legal eduation, 2013-2015, 2021
  • Professor of law, 2014-2022
  • Co-director, Misdemeanor Clinic, 2018-2022
  • Special counsel, Office for Access to Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, 2015-2016

Other nominations

Nominated to U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, April 28, 2016; no Senate vote; Nominated to U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, November 3, 2021; no Senate vote

DataSources: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal JudgesData as of Oct 29, 2026

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