President Biden Names Twenty-Eighth Round of Judicial Nominees

The President is announcing his intent to nominate six individuals to serve as federal judges—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 twenty-eighth round of nominees for federal judicial positions, bringing the number of announced federal judicial nominees to 150.  President Biden has spent decades committed to strengthening the federal bench, which is why he continues to move rapidly to fill judicial vacancies. And he has won confirmation of the most lower court judges for the first year of a presidency since the Kennedy Administration

United States District Court Announcement

1. Judge Matthew P. Brookman: Candidate for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

Matthew P. Brookman has served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Indiana since 2016. Previously, Judge Brookman served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Indiana from 2002 to 2016, and as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri from 1999 to 2002. He worked as an associate at the law firm Herzog, Crebs & McGhee, LLP from 1997 to 1999, as a state court prosecutor in Jefferson County, Missouri from 1994 to 1997, and as an associate for Brown & James in St. Louis, Missouri from 1993 to 1994. Judge Brookman received his J.D. from the Washington University School of Law in 1993 and his B.A. from DePauw University in 1990.

2. Michael E. Farbiarz: Candidate for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

Michael E. Farbiarz has served as the General Counsel of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey since 2016. From 2014 to 2016, Mr. Farbiarz was a Senior Fellow at New York University School of Law. Mr. Farbiarz served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York from 2004 to 2014, including as Co-Chief of the Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit from 2010 to 2014. Mr. Farbiarz was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York from 2001 to 2004. He served as a law clerk for Judge José A. Cabranes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2000 to 2001 and for Chief Judge Michael B. Mukasey on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1999 to 2000. Mr. Farbiarz received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1999 and his A.B. From Harvard University in 1995.

3. Judge Marian Gaston: Candidate for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California

Marian Gaston has served as a judge on the Superior Court of California in San Diego since 2015. From 1996 to 2015, Judge Gaston served as a Deputy Public Defender in the San Diego County Public Defender’s Office. Judge Gaston received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 1996 and her B.A. from Emory University in 1993.

4.  Judge Wesley Hsu: Candidate for the United States District Court for the Central District of California

Wesley Hsu has served as a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court since 2017. Judge Hsu served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California from 2000 to 2017, including as Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney from 2015 to 2017 and Chief of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section from 2008 to 2015. Judge Hsu was an associate at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP from 1997 to 2000. He served as a law clerk for Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California from 1996 to 1997. Judge Hsu received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1996 and his B.A. from Yale University in 1993.

5. Judge Robert Kirsch: Candidate for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

Robert Kirsch has served as a judge on the New Jersey Superior Court for Union County since 2010. Previously, Judge Kirsch was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey from 1997 to 2010 and served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C from 1993 to 1997. Judge Kirsch entered the Department of Justice through the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 1993. He served as a law clerk for Judge William Zloch on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida from 1991 to 1993. Judge Kirsch received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law in 1991 and his B.A. from Emory University in 1988.

6. Mónica Ramírez Almadani: Candidate for the United States District Court for the Central District of California

Mónica Ramírez Almadani has been the President and CEO of Public Counsel, the largest pro bono public interest law firm in the nation, since 2021. She previously worked as a Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law from 2019 to 2021, as a Special Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP from 2017 to 2019, and as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the California Attorney General’s Office from 2015 to 2017. From 2009 to 2015, Ms. Ramírez Almadani held various positions at the U.S. Department of Justice, including Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California from 2012 to 2015; Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General from 2011 to 2012; and Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division from 2009 to 2011. From 2005 to 2009, she was a Staff Attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union. From 2004 to 2005, she served as a law clerk for Judge Warren J. Ferguson on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Ms. Ramírez Almadani received her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2004 and her A.B. from Harvard University in 2001.

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