Janet C. Hall

Janet C. Hall
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
Incumbent
Assumed office January 21, 2021
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
In office September 9, 2013 – September 8, 2018
Preceded by	Alvin W. Thompson
Succeeded by	Stefan R. Underhill
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
Succeeded by	vacant
Personal details
Born	(1948-09-15) September 15, 1948 Lowell, Massachusetts
Education	Mount Holyoke College (A.B.) New York University School of Law (J.D.)

Janet C. Hall (born September 15, 1948) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. She sits in New Haven.

Education and career

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Hall received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1970. She went on to earn a Juris Doctor 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 United States Attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia in 1979. From 1980 to 1997, she was in private practice in Hartford, Connecticut.

Federal judicial service

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 served as Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut from September 2013 to September 2018. She assumed senior status on January 21, 2021.

Sources

• Janet C. Hall at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.