Anne Rachel Traum

Anne Rachel Traum (born 1969) is a Professor of Law for the University of Nevada-Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.

Biography

Traum received a Artium Baccalaureus, cum laude, in 1991 from Brown University. She received a Juris Doctor, Order of the Coif and cum laude, in 1996 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Stanwood Duval of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. 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. From 2002 to 2008, she served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[1]

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. She 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.^[1]

Nomination to district court

On April 28, 2016, President Obama nominated Traum to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, to the seat vacated by Judge Robert Clive Jones, who took senior status on February 1, 2016. Her nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.^[2]

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