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Jonathan J.C. Grey
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Assumed office
August 24, 2021
Personal details
Born
Jonathan James Canada Grey

1982 (age 41–42)
Poplarville, Mississippi, U.S.
EducationMorehouse College (BS)
Georgetown University (JD)

Jonathan James Canada Grey (born 1982)[1] is an American lawyer serving as a magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. He is a nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the same court.

Education

Grey earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Morehouse College in 2004 and a Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2007.[2][3]

Career

Grey served as a law clerk for Judge Willie Louis Sands of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia from 2009 to 2010 and Judge Damon Keith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 2010 to 2011. From 2011 to 2012 and 2007 to 2009, he was an associate at Seyfarth Shaw. Grey served as an assistant United States attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan from 2012 to 2016 and Southern District of Ohio from 2016 to 2021.[4]

Federal judicial service

On April 6, 2021, Grey was selected as a United States magistrate judge.[5] He was sworn into office on August 24, 2021.[6][7]

On September 2, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Grey to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.[4] On September 6, 2022, his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Grey to the seat vacated by Judge Denise Page Hood, who assumed senior status on May 1, 2022.[8] His nomination is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On November 30, 2022, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Questionaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved November 29, 2022.
  2. ^ "LAW". WE ARE MOREHOUSE. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  3. ^ "Attorneys Visit African American Studies Course on History of Injustice". Ohio University | College of Arts & Sciences. April 13, 2018. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  4. ^ a b "President Biden Names Twenty-Sixth Round of Judicial Nominees". The White House. September 2, 2022. Retrieved September 2, 2022.
  5. ^ "FEDERAL COURT NAMES NEW MAGISTRATE JUDGE" (PDF). United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. April 6, 2021. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
  6. ^ Burke, Melissa Nann; Snell, Robert (September 2, 2022). "Biden taps Magistrate Judge Grey for District Court bench in Detroit". The Detroit News. Retrieved September 5, 2022.
  7. ^ "News Advisory" (PDF). United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. August 21, 2021. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
  8. ^ Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: "Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. September 6, 2022.
  9. ^ "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. November 30, 2022.

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