Anne Rachel Traum
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. Born 1969.
Federal judicial service
Newest firstJudge, 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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