Preceded by Alvin W. Thompson Role Judge Name Janet Hall | Preceded by T. F. Gilroy Daly Appointed by Bill Clinton | |
Alma mater Mount Holyoke College (A.B.)
New York University School of Law (J.D.) Education New York University School of Law, Mount Holyoke College | ||
Chief Judge Janet C. Hall, John Eldred Shields Professional Service Award
Janet C. Hall (born 1948) is the Chief United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. She sits in New Haven.
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- Chief Judge Janet C Hall John Eldred Shields Professional Service Award
- Education and career
- Federal judicial service
- References
Education and career
Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Hall received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1970. She went on to earn a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law three years later. After obtaining her J.D., Hall entered private practice until 1975. Then, she landed a position as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, which she held until 1979. She was then a Special Assistant United States Attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia in 1979. From 1980 to 1997, she was in private practice in Hartford, Connecticut.
Federal judicial service
Hall was nominated by President Bill Clinton on June 5, 1997, to a seat vacated by T. F. Gilroy Daly. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 11, 1997, and received her commission on September 18, 1997. She became Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut on September 9, 2013.