Bridget Shelton Bade

Bridget Shelton Bade
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona
Assumed office
2012
Personal details
Born Bridget Ann Shelton[1]
1965 (age 52–53)
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Education Arizona State University (BA, JD)

Bridget Shelton Bade (born 1965)[1] is a United States Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and a nominee to be a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Early life and career

Bade earned her Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from the Arizona State University, and her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, where she served as an articles editor of the Arizona State Law Journal. After graduating from law school, Bade clerked for Judge Edith Jones of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Bade served for four years as a trial attorney in the Environmental Torts Section of the United States Department of Justice Civil Division. She was later a shareholder at Beshears Wallwork Bellamy, where her practice focused on civil litigation. Bade then spent a year as special counsel in the Phoenix office of Steptoe & Johnson. Following her years in private practice, Bade was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Arizona for six years.[2]

Federal judicial service

Magistrate judge tenure

Bade currently serves as a United States Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, a position she was appointed to in 2012.[2]

Nomination to court of appeals

On August 27, 2018, President Trump nominated Bade to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[2][3] Her nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

References

  1. 1 2 United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees: Bridget Shelton Bade
  2. 1 2 3 "President Donald J. Trump Announces Seventeenth Wave of Judicial Nominees". whitehouse.gov. August 27, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2018. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ↑ "PN2449 — Bridget S. Bade — The Judiciary". United States Senate. August 27, 2018. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
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