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Brendan Abell Hurson

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland · 2023

Brendan Abell Hurson, Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. The Senate voted 53–44 on the nomination on Oct 4, 2023 (Nomination Confirmed).

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Senate confirmation votes

  • United States District Judge for the District of Maryland
    118th Congress · Nomination Confirmed
    53–44 · Oct 4, 2023

Education

  • Providence CollegeB.A., 2000
  • University of Maryland School of Law (now Francis King Carey School of Law)J.D., 2005

Career

Law clerk, Hon. Margaret B. Seymour, U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, 2005-2006; Private practice, Baltimore, Maryland, 2006-2007; Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland, 2007-2017, 2018-2022; assistant federal public defender, 2007-2014, 2018; senior litigation counsel, 2015-2017, 2019-2022; Adjunct professor, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, 2011-2016; Assistant federal public defender, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2017-2018

Biography

Brendan Abell Hurson (born 1977) is an American lawyer from Maryland who is serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. He previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court from 2022 to 2023.

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