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Two Nominations Made to District Courts in State
By a MetNews Staff Writer
President Joe Biden yesterday, on the last day of his first year in office, made two nominations to District Court posts in California, among eight judicial selections nationwide.
He selected Fresno Superior Court Judge Ana Isabel de Alba for a vacancy in the Eastern District and attorney Robert Steven Huie, who is of counsel to Jones Day, for a slot in the Southern District.
The White House said in an announcement that the nomination of Alba “would make her the first Latina to serve in California’s Eastern District and the second active judge of Hispanic descent on the court.”
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ROBERT STEVEN HUIE attorney |
ANA ISABEL DE ALBA Fresno Superior Court Judge |
The announcement pointed out:
“This slate of nominees came rounding out a year focused on increasing the demographic and professional diversity of the federal bench.”
Huie, a member of Jones Day’s Diversity, Inclusion & Advancement Committee, is a former assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of California, where he served as deputy chief of the Major Frauds and Public Corruption Section.
If confirmed by the Senate, Alba would succeed Judge Morrison C. England Jr., who assumed senior status on Dec. 17, 2019, and Huie would replace Judge Michael Anello, who became a senior judge on Oct. 31, 2018.
Alba’s law degree is from the University of California at Berkeley and Huie is a graduate of the law school at Yale.
There is now one nomination pending in the Senate to the Ninth Circuit and 10 nominations to district courts in California—five in the Central District—awaiting action.
The president made 83 nominations in his first year in office.
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