Appointed by Barack Obama Preceded by Roger Hunt | Name Miranda Du | |
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Born December 11, 1969 (age 54)
Ca Mau, South Vietnam
(now Vietnam) ( 1969-12-11 ) Alma mater University of California, Davis
UC Berkeley School of Law | ||
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Miranda Mai Du (born December 11, 1969) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.
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- Early life and education
- Professional career
- Federal judicial service
- Notable decisions
- References
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Early life and education
Born in Cà Mau, Vietnam, Du left the country at age 9, when her family sought asylum in Malaysia. They spent a year in Malaysian refugee camps before ultimately being granted asylum in the United States. Du received a Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Davis in 1991 and a Juris Doctor from University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 1994.
Professional career
Upon graduating law school, Du took a job as an associate at the law firm McDonald Carano Wilson LLP. She was promoted to partner in 2002.
Federal judicial service
On August 2, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Du to replace Judge Roger L. Hunt who took senior status in 2011. On November 3, 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee narrowly reported her nomination to the Senate floor in a party-line, 10–8 vote. On March 28, 2012, Du's nomination was confirmed by a vote of 59 ayes to 39 nays. She received her commission on March 30, 2012. Du became the first Asian Pacific American to serve as an Article III judge in Nevada.
Notable decisions
In January 2015, Judge Du granted the habeas petition of Jose Echavarria, a death row inmate convicted of killing an FBI agent. Echavarria's attorneys argued that his trial was unfair because the presiding judge was also being investigated by the FBI - a fact they did not learn until after the trial ended. Judge Du agreed and ruled that Echavarria was entitled to a new trial.
In October 2016, Judge Du granted several Nevada Native American tribes a preliminary injunction which required the state to set up early voting and election day polling locations on their reservations. The plaintiffs argued that many of them would have to travel nearly 100 miles round trip to reach polling sites, and that Section II of The Voting Rights Act of 1965 required the state to take the location of their reservations into account when planning polling locations. Judge Du agreed in part, granting preliminary early voting and election day relief, but found that the plaintiffs did not have standing to seek in-person voter registration staffing as well.