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Tenure

2014 - Present

Term ends

2030

Years in position

10

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Elizabeth A. Stafford is a federal magistrate judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. She has served on the court since November 17, 2014. Her current term will expire will expire on November 15, 2030.^[1]

Education

Stafford earned a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and her J.D. from Wayne State University Law School.^[1]

Professional career

From her court biography, after law school Judge Stafford "began her career at the firm of Goodman, Eden, Millender & Bedrosian, practicing in various areas of personal injury law, including automobile negligence, products liability, civil rights, governmental immunity and wrongful discharge. In 1998, she became a career law clerk for United States District Judge Victoria A. Roberts. Judge Stafford joined the office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan in 2002, serving as a prosecutor in the general crimes, the controlled substance and the public corruption units until her appointment to the bench. Judge Stafford taught basic and intermediate trial advocacy at the National Advocacy Center in South Carolina, and a federal courts practice course at Thomas M. Cooley Law School. She presented on federal court practice for the Wolverine Bar Association and the Institute of Continuing Legal Education."^[1]

See also

External links

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Footnotes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, "Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Stafford," accessed March 17, 2017

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Federal judges who have served the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

• Thomas Ludington • Mark Goldsmith • Stephen Murphy (Michigan) • Shalina Kumar • Linda V. Parker • Laurie Michelson • Terrence Berg • Judith Ellen Levy • Matthew Frederick Leitman • Jonathan Grey • Frances Kay Behm • Susan DeClercq • Brandy McMillion • Robert White (Michigan)

Bernard Friedman • Paul Borman • Robert Cleland • Nancy Edmunds • Denise Hood • David M. Lawson • John O'Meara (Michigan) • George Steeh • Gershwin Drain •

Magistrate judges

David Grand • Patricia T. Morris • Anthony Patti • Elizabeth Stafford • Kimberly Altman • Curtis Ivy Jr. •

Former Article III judges

Damon Keith • Victoria Roberts • Marianne Battani • Anna Taylor • Avern Cohn • Sean Cox (Michigan) • Patrick Duggan • John Feikens • Paul Gadola • Arthur Tarnow • Lawrence Zatkoff • Cornelia Kennedy • Ralph Guy • Richard Suhrheinrich • Horace Gilmore • Stewart Newblatt • Ross Wilkins • Barbara Hackett • Russell Harvey (Michigan) • George La Plata • Henry Billings Brown (U.S. Supreme Court) • John Wesley Longyear • Henry Harrison Swan • Alexis Caswell Angell • Arthur Tuttle • Charles Casper Simons • Edward Julien Moinet • Ernest Aloysius O'Brien • Arthur Lederle • Frank Picard • Wade Hampton McCree, Jr. • James Churchill • Mona Majzoub • Patricia Boyle • Robert DeMascio • Ralph Freeman • Lawrence Gubow • Frederick Kaess • Arthur Koscinski • Theodore Levin (Michigan) • Thaddeus Machrowicz • Clifford O'Sullivan • Philip Pratt (Michigan) • Stephen Roth (Michigan) • Talbot Smith • Thomas Thornton • George Woods (federal judge) • Stephanie Dawkins Davis •

Former Chief judges

Damon Keith • Bernard Friedman • Anna Taylor • Julian Cook • Sean Cox (Michigan) • John Feikens • Lawrence Zatkoff • Cornelia Kennedy • Arthur Lederle • Frank Picard • James Churchill • Ralph Freeman • Frederick Kaess • Theodore Levin (Michigan) • Philip Pratt (Michigan) •

Michigan courts

Federal courts:

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of Michigan, Western District of Michigan • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Eastern District of Michigan, Western District of Michigan

State courts:

Michigan Supreme Court • Michigan Court of Appeals • Michigan Circuit Court • Michigan Court of Claims • Michigan District Courts • Michigan Municipal Courts • Michigan Probate Courts

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