Rebecca Grady Jennings

Jennings received her Bachelor of Arts from Emory University and Juris Doctor from the Washington College of Law at American University, where she served as a senior associate on the American University International Law Review.

In 2000 she was a student attorney for the American University Community and Economic Development Law Clinic and later a legal intern for District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Nan R. Shuker. In 2001 she was an equal justice foundation fellow for C-CAPE in Beaufort, North Carolina.

She began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge William Joseph Haynes Jr. of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Before becoming a judge, she worked as chair of Middleton Reutlinger's litigation practice, and her practice focused on civil litigation at both the trial and appellate levels in state and federal courts.[2]

On September 7, 2017, President Trump nominated Jennings to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, to the seat vacated by Judge John G. Heyburn II, who assumed senior status on April 1, 2014.[3] A hearing on her nomination before the Senate Judiciary Committee was held on November 15, 2017.[4] On December 7, 2017, her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.[5] On April 12, 2018, the Senate voted to invoke cloture by a vote of 94-2.[6] Her nomination was then confirmed on the same day by a voice vote.[7] She received her commission on April 19, 2018.

Jennings is married to Patrick Jennings, who works at Commonwealth Alliances, a lobbying firm.[8]

• Rebecca Grady Jennings at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
• Rebecca Grady Jennings at Ballotpedia