Congratulations to UNLV professor Anne Rachel Traum, who has just been nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. Cribbing now from the White House's press release:
Anne Rachel Traum is a Professor of Law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law. She is currently on leave from the law school and serving as Special Counsel in the Office for Access to Justice at the United States Department of Justice. Professor Traum joined the University of Nevada-Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law faculty in 2008, and she has served as the Director of the Appellate Clinic since 2009. She also served as the Associate Dean for Experiential Legal Education from 2013 to 2015. From 2002 to 2008, Professor Traum served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Las Vegas, Nevada. She served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada from 2000 to 2002, while on detail from the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice, where she worked from 1998 to 2000. She began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Stanwood R. Duval, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. Professor Traum received her J.D. Order of the Coif and cum laude from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1996 and her A.B. with honors from Brown University in 1991.
H/t Carl Tobias.
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