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Ellen Huvelle
2014 - Present
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Ellen Segal Huvelle is a federal judge on senior status with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She joined the court in 1999 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. Huvelle elected to take senior status beginning on June 3, 2014.[1]
Early life and education
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Huvelle graduated from Wellesley College with her bachelor's degree in 1970. She earned her master's degree from the Yale University School of Architecture in 1972. Huvelle graduated from Boston College School of Law with her J.D. in 1975.[1]
Professional career
- 2014-Present: Senior judge
- 1999-Present: Judge
- 1997-1999: Lecturer, University of Virginia School of Law
- 1990-1999: Associate judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
- 1976-1990: Private practice, Washington, D.C.
- 1975-1976: Law clerk, Hon. Edward Hennessey, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court[1]
Judicial career
District of Columbia
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| Nominee Information |
| Name: Ellen Segal Huvelle |
| Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
| Progress |
| Confirmed 204 days after nomination. |
 Nominated: March 25, 1999
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| ABA Rating: Unanimously Well Qualified
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| Questionnaire: |
| Hearing: September 14, 1999
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| QFRs: (Hover over QFRs to read more) |
| Reported: October 7, 1999
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| Confirmed: October 15, 1999
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| Vote: Voice vote
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Huvelle was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by President Bill Clinton on March 25, 1999, to a seat vacated by John Penn. The American Bar Association rated Huvelle Unanimously Well Qualified for the nomination. Hearings on Huvelle's nomination were held before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 14, 1999, and her nomination was reported by U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on October 7, 1999. Huvelle was confirmed on a voice vote of the U.S. Senate on October 15, 1999, and she received her commission on October 26, 1999. Huvelle elected to take senior status beginning on June 3, 2014. She was succeeded in this position by Judge Amit Priyavadan Mehta.[1][2][3]
Noteworthy cases
Ordered release of juvenile Gitmo detainee (2009)
- See also: United States District Court for the District of Columbia (Saki Bacha (aka Mohammed Jawad) v. Barack Obama, et al., 1:05-cv-02385-ESH)
- See also: United States District Court for the District of Columbia (Saki Bacha (aka Mohammed Jawad) v. Barack Obama, et al., 1:05-cv-02385-ESH)
Judge Huvelle on July 23, 2009, ruled that Mohammed Jawad must be given a trial in federal court after being held in Guantanamo Bay for over seven years.[4] The judge found in her July 23rd ruling that there was no basis for the Government to continue to hold Jawad in Guantanamo Bay.[4] On July 30, 2009, Judge Huvelle ordered that Jawad should be released and returned to Afghanastan.[5] The judge ordered that federal prosecutors have until August 6, 2009 to notify Congress that the prosecutors carried out her order.[5] However, prosecutors looked for new evidence to start a new trial on Jawad.[5] Jawad was returned to Afghanistan on August 24th, 2009.[6]
See also
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Federal Judicial Center, "Biography of Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle," accessed May 11, 2017
- ↑ United States Congress, "PN 180 — Ellen Segal Huvelle — The Judiciary," accessed May 11, 2017
- ↑ American Bar Association, "Ratings of Article III judicial nominees, 106th Congress," accessed May 11, 2017
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The New York Times, "Government might allow U.S. trial for detainee," July 24, 2009
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 The Cleveland Plain Dealer, "U.S. judge orders young Gitmo prisoner freed," July 30, 2009
- ↑ ACLU, "Guantánamo Detainee Mohammed Jawad Returned Home To Afghanistan," August 24, 2009
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by: John Penn |
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia 1999-2014 |
Succeeded by: Amit Priyavadan Mehta
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| 1993 |
Adams • Ambrose • Barnes • Brinkema • Bucklew • Chasanow • Coffman • Daughtrey • Ferguson • Ginsburg • Hagen • Jackson • Lancaster • Leval • Lindsay • Messitte • Michael • Piersol • Saris • Schwartz • Seybert • Shanahan • Shaw • Stearns • Trager • Vazquez • Wilken • Wilson | ||
| 1994 |
Baer • Barkett • Batts • Beaty • Benavides • Bennett • Berrigan • Biery • Block • Borman • Breyer • Briones • Bryson • Bucklo • Burgess • Burrage • Cabranes • Calabresi • Carr • Casellas • Castillo • Chatigny • Chin • Cindrich • Coar • Collins • Cooper • Cote • Currie • Davis • Dominguez • Downes • Duval • Friedman • Furgeson • Garcia • Gertner • Gettleman • Gillmor • Gilmore • Gleeson • Haggerty • Hamilton • Hannah • Hawkins • Henry • Holmes • Hood • Hull • Hurley • Jack • Jones • Jones • Kaplan • Katz • Kern • Kessler • Koeltl • Lisi • Manning • McKee • McLaughlin • Melancon • Miles-LaGrange • Moore • Motz • Murphy • O'Malley • O'Meara • Oliver • Paez • B. Parker • F. Parker • R. Parker • Perry • Ponsor • Pooler • Porteous • Rendell • Riley • Robertson • Rogers • Ross • Russell • Sands • Sarokin • Scheindlin • Silver • Squatrito • Stewart • Sullivan • Tatel • Thompson • Timlin • Urbina • Vanaskie • Vance • Walls • Wells • Williams | ||
| 1995 |
Arterton • Atlas • Black • Blake • Briscoe • Tena Campbell • Todd Campbell • Chesney • Cole • Collier • Daniel • Davis • Dennis • Dlott • Donald • Duffy • Economus • Evans • Fallon • Folsom • Gaughan • Goodwin • Heartfield • Hunt • Illston • Jones • King • Kornmann • Lawson • Lenard • Lucero • Lynch • McKinley • Moody • Moore • Moskowitz • Murphy • Murtha • Nugent • O'Toole • Orlofsky • Pogue • Sessions • C. Smith • O. Smith • Stein • Thornburg • Tunheim • Wallach • Wardlaw • Webber • Whaley • Winmill • Wood | ||
| 1996 |
Broadwater • Clevert • Fenner • Gershon • Gottschall • Greenaway • Hinkle • Jones • Kahn • Laughrey • Lemmon • Marten • Miller • Molloy • Montgomery • Pregerson • Rakoff • Sargus • Tashima • Thomas • Zapata | ||
| 1997 |
Adelman • Bataillon • Breyer • Caputo • Casey • Chambers • Clay • Damrell • Droney • Friedman • Gajarsa • Garland • Gilman • Gold • Gwin • Hall • Hayden • Hull • Ishii • Jenkins • Kauffman • Kennedy • Kimball • Kollar-Kotelly • Lazzara • Marbley • Marcus • Middlebrooks • Miller • Moon • Pratt • Rendell • Sippel • Siragusa • Snyder • Thrash | ||
| 1998 |
Aiken • Barbier • Barzilay • Berman • Buttram • Carter • Collins • Dawson • Dimitrouleas • Fletcher • Fogel • Frank • Graber • Hellerstein • Herndon • James • Johnson • Kane • Kelly • G. King • R. King • Lasnik • Lee • Lemelle • Lindsay • Lipez • Manella • Matz • McCuskey • McKeown • McMahon • Mickle • Mollway • Mordue • Moreno • Morrow • Munley • Murphy • Pallmeyer • Pauley • Polster • Pooler • Rawlinson • Ridgway • R. Roberts • V. Roberts • Sack • Scott • Seitz • Seymour • Shea • Silverman • Sleet • Sotomayor • Steeh • Story • Straub • Tagle • Tarnow • Trauger • Traxler • Tyson • Wardlaw • Whelan • Young | ||
| 1999 |
Alsup • Barry • Brown • Buchwald • Cooper • Eaton • Ellison • Feess • Fisher • Gould • Guzman • Haynes • Hibbler • Hochberg • Hurd • Huvelle • Jordan • Katzmann • Kennelly • Linn • Lorenz • Lynn • Marrero • Murguia • Pannell • Pechman • Pepper • Phillips • Schreier • Stewart • Underhill • Ward • Williams • Wilson | ||
| 2000 |
Ambro • Antoon • Battani • Berzon • Bolton • Brady • Bye • Cavanaugh • Daniels • Darrah • Dawson • Dyk • Fuentes • Garaufis • Garcia-Gregory • Hamilton • Huck • Hunt • Lawson • Lefkow • Lynch • Martin • McLaughlin • Moody • Murguia • Paez • Pisano • Presnell • Rawlinson • Reagan • Schiller • Singal • Steele • Surrick • Swain • Tallman • Teilborg • Tucker • Whittemore | ||
