President Biden Names Fifty-Third Round of Judicial Nominees

The President is announcing his intent to nominate three individuals to federal district courts and two individuals to the District of Columbia Superior Court—all of whom are extraordinarily qualified, experienced, and devoted to the rule of law and our Constitution.
These choices also continue to fulfill the President’s promise to ensure that the nation’s courts reflect the diversity that is one of our greatest assets as a country—both in terms of personal and professional backgrounds.

This will be President Biden’s fifty-third round of nominees for federal judicial positions, bringing the number of announced federal judicial nominees to 254. The President has now announced 25 nominees to serve on the District of Columbia Superior Court.

United States District Court Announcements

1. Judge Anthony J. Brindisi: Nominee for the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York

Judge Anthony J. Brindisi has been a judge on the New York State Court of Claims in Utica, New York since 2022. In addition, Judge Brindisi has been serving as an Acting Supreme Court Justice in Oneida County, New York since the beginning of 2024. Prior to joining the bench, Judge Brindisi was a partner at Brindisi, Murad & Brindisi Pearlman, LLP in Utica, New York from 2021 to 2022. From 2019 to 2021, Judge Brindisi served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing New York’s 22nd Congressional District. Before that, he represented District 119, which includes the Utica and Rome region, in the New York State Assembly from 2011 to 2019. While a member of the New York State Assembly, Judge Brindisi also practiced law at Brindisi, Murad & Brindisi Pearlman, LLP. He joined the law firm as an associate in 2004, was named a partner in 2008, and served as of counsel from 2014 until his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018. Judge Brindisi received his J.D. from Albany Law School in 2004 and his B.A. from Siena College in 2000.

2. Tiffany R. Johnson: Nominee for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Tiffany R. Johnson has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia since 2017. She served in the office’s Civil Division until 2020, when she transferred to its Criminal Division. From 2012 to 2017, Ms. Johnson worked as a litigation associate at the Atlanta law firm of Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs, LLP. She received her J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2012 and her B.A., magna cum laude, from Princeton University in 2009.

3. Keli M. Neary: Nominee for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Keli M. Neary has been the Executive Deputy Attorney General for the Civil Law Division of the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General since 2019. She previously served as a Deputy, Senior Deputy, and then Chief Deputy Attorney General in the Civil Law Division between 2012 and 2019. From 2007 to 2012, Ms. Neary was an Assistant Counsel in the Pennsylvania State Police’s Office of Chief Counsel. Before that, she served as a law clerk for Judges C. Joseph Rehkamp, Kathy Morrow, and Keith B. Quigley on the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas from 2006 to 2007. Ms. Neary received her J.D. from Widener University Commonwealth Law School in 2006 and her B.A., cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown in 2003.

District of Columbia Superior Court Announcements

1. James Graham Lake: Nominee for the District of Columbia Superior Court

James Graham Lake has been Chief of the Workers’ Rights & Antifraud Section of the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia since 2021. He first joined the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia in 2019 as an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Consumer Protection. Previously, Mr. Lake worked as an associate at Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC from 2014 to 2019. Mr. Lake served as a law clerk for Judge Harry T. Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 2013 to 2014 and for Judge Mark R. Kravitz, Judge Janet Bond Arterton, and Judge Michael P. Shea of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut from 2012 to 2013. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University School of Law in 2012; his M.S. from Pace University in 2008; and his B.A. from Amherst College in 2005.

2. Nicholas George Miranda: Nominee for the District of Columbia Superior Court

Nicholas George Miranda has been Chief of the Victim Witness Assistance Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia since 2021. He first joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2012 and previously worked in its Cyber Crimes, Federal Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Unit. Mr. Miranda served on detail as an Associate Counsel at the Office of the White House Counsel from 2016 to 2017. Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Miranda worked as an associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP from 2009 to 2012. Mr. Miranda served as a law clerk for Judge Stanley Marcus on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from 2008 to 2009. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 2008, and his B.A., cum laude, from Yale University in 2005.
 

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