Helen W. Gillmor
Helen W. Gillmor | |
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii | |
Assumed office June 30, 2009 | |
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii | |
In office October 11, 1994 – June 30, 2009 | |
Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | new seat authorized by 104 Stat. 5089 |
Succeeded by | Leslie E. Kobayashi |
Personal details | |
Born | 1942 (age 81–82) Syracuse, New York, U.S. |
Alma mater | Queens College, City University of New York (B.A.) Boston University School of Law (LL.B.) |
Helen W. Gillmor (born 1942) is a United States federal judge.
Early life and education
Born in Syracuse, New York, Gillmor received a B.A. from Queens College, City University of New York in 1965, and an LL.B. from Boston University School of Law in 1968.
Career
Gillmor was in private practice in Boston, Massachusetts from 1968–1969, and in El Paso, Texas in 1969. She was a lecturer at the International Legal Center of the United States Agency for International Development, in Seoul, South Korea from 1969 to 1970, returning to private practice in Camden, Maine in 1970, and in Honolulu, Hawaii from 1971 to 1972, 1974 to 1977, and 1985 to 1994. She was a law clerk to William Richardson, Chief Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court in 1972, a deputy public defender of the Honolulu Office of the Public Defender from 1972 to 1974, and a lecturer at the University of Hawaii in 1975.
Judicial service
Gillmor was a district court judge of the Hawaii State Family Court, First Circuit from 1977 to 1983, and of the District Court of Hawaii for the same circuit from 1983 to 1985.
On August 25, 1994, Gillmor was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii created by 104 Stat. 5089. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 7, 1994, and received her commission on October 11, 1994. She became chief judge in 2005. She assumed senior status on June 30, 2009.
Sources
- Helen W. Gillmor at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- 1942 births
- Living people
- American women lawyers
- American women judges
- Hawaii state court judges
- Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii
- United States district court judges appointed by Bill Clinton
- People from Syracuse, New York
- Queens College, City University of New York alumni
- Boston University School of Law alumni
- Public defenders