Michael P. Shea

Michael Shea

Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
Incumbent
Assumed office December 7, 2012
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Christopher Droney
Personal details
Born	April 1967 (age 49) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Alma mater	Amherst College Yale University

Michael Peter Shea (born April 1967) is a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Biography

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Shea received his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in 1989 from Amherst College. He received his Juris Doctor in 1993 from Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk to United States Circuit Judge James L. Buckley of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1993 to 1994. He worked at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP as an associate and then joined Day Pitney as an associate in 1998 and became a partner in that firm in 2003. At Day Pitney, he chaired the firm's Appellate Practice Group, while also representing individuals, non-profits and corporations in civil and criminal cases. In private practice, he argued twenty civil and criminal appeals in state and federal courts.^[1]

Federal judicial service

On February 2, 2012, President Obama nominated Shea to be United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.^[2] He would replace Judge Christopher F. Droney who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on December 1, 2011. He received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 28, 2012 and his nomination was reported to the floor on April 26, 2012, by a vote of 15 ayes to 3 nays, with Senators Lee, Coburn and Cornyn casting the no votes.^[3] The Senate confirmed his nomination on December 5, 2012, by a vote of 72 ayes to 23 nays. He received his commission on December 7, 2012.^[4]

References

External links

Michael P. Shea at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Christopher Droney	Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut 2012–present	Incumbent

Currently active district judges of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Connecticut	Hall Chatigny Thompson Underhill Bryant Shea Meyer Bolden

E. New York	Irizarry Bianco Vitaliano Cogan Mauskopf Matsumoto Kuntz Brodie Chen Azrack Donnelly Hall 3 seats vacant

N. New York	Suddaby Hurd D'Agostino Sannes 1 seat vacant

S. New York	McMahon Preska Koeltl Pauley Daniels Swain Castel Karas Sullivan Seibel Gardephe Briccetti Oetken Engelmayer Forrest Nathan Ramos Carter Furman Abrams Schofield Failla Torres Roman Broderick Woods Caproni 1 seat vacant

W. New York	Geraci Wolford Vilardo 1 seat vacant

Vermont	Reiss Crawford

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