Senate Confirms Judge Maldonado To Serve As United States Circuit Judge For the Seventh District

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) today released the following statement after the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Judge Nancy L. Maldonado to be a United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit.  Judge Maldonado will be the first Hispanic judge to ever serve on the Seventh Circuit.

Judge Maldonado currently serves as a United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois.  In July 2022, the Senate confirmed Judge Maldonado to this position on a bipartisan vote of 53-45. 

“We are pleased that the Senate has confirmed Judge Maldonado to serve as a United States Circuit Judge for the Seventh Circuit.  She has the qualifications, integrity, and judgment to serve with distinction and will continue to strengthen our federal bench.  She also makes history as the first Hispanic judge to ever serve on the Seventh Circuit.”

Last month, Durbin spoke on the Senate floor urging the Senate to advance her nomination.

Judge Nancy L. Maldonado’s biography from the White House can be found below:

Judge Nancy L. Maldonado has been a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois since 2022.  Judge Maldonado was previously a partner at Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C. in Chicago from 2010 to 2022 and an associate at the firm from 2003 to 2009. From 2001 to 2003, Judge Maldonado served as a law clerk for Judge Rubén Castillo on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2001 and her A.B., cum laude, from Harvard University in 1997.

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