Janet C. Hall

Janet C. Hall
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
In office
September 9, 2013 – September 8, 2018
Preceded by Alvin W. Thompson
Succeeded by Stefan R. Underhill
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
Assumed office
September 18, 1997
Appointed by Bill Clinton
Preceded by T. F. Gilroy Daly
Personal details
Born 1948 (age 69–70)
Lowell, Massachusetts
Education Mount Holyoke College (A.B.)
New York University School of Law (J.D.)

Janet C. Hall (born 1948) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. She sits in New Haven.

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 served as Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut from September 2013 to September 2018.

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    Legal offices
    Preceded by
    T. F. Gilroy Daly    		 Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
    1997–present    		 Incumbent
    Preceded by
    Alvin W. Thompson    		 Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
    2013–2018    		 Succeeded by
    Stefan R. Underhill
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