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Tu Pham
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2003 - Present
2027
22
Tu M. Pham is a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee. He began serving in this position on April 21, 2003, for an eight-year term.[1] Pham was reappointed to a second eight-year term beginning April 21, 2019.[2]
Education
Tu Pham was born on November 17, 1971, in Di Linh, Vietnam. He received his B.A. degree in English from Tulane University in 1993 and his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1996.[3]
Career
After law school, Tu Pham began his career in Texas as a law clerk to Appellate Judge William Garwood of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The following year, he moved to Chicago to join the firm Kirkland & Ellis, LLP as a litigation associate. In 1999, he became an assistant U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. In 2001, he moved back to Chicago and worked as the assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois from 2001 until his judicial appointment in 2003.[3]
See also
- United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee
- United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
External links
Footnotes
Federal courts:
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of Tennessee, Middle District of Tennessee, Western District of Tennessee • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Eastern District of Tennessee, Middle District of Tennessee, Western District of Tennessee
State courts:
Tennessee Supreme Court • Tennessee Court of Appeals • Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals • Tennessee Circuit Court • Tennessee Chancery Courts • Tennessee Criminal Court • Tennessee Probate Court • Tennessee General Sessions Court • Tennessee Juvenile Court • Tennessee Municipal Court
State resources:
Courts in Tennessee • Tennessee judicial elections • Judicial selection in Tennessee
