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SENATE CONFIRMS FEDERAL JUDGE FOR THE AREA OF SACRAMENTO
Via Gillian Brassil…
Right Dena M. Coggins was confirmed by the US Senate last week in federal court covering Sacramento.
Coggins, who has been a judge on the Sacramento County Supreme Courtwill be the first black woman to serve as a federal judge in the US United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. She is also of Asian-American descent.
Coggins will officially join the federal court as Chief District Judge in September Kimberly J.Mueller assumes senior status, a reduced workload that judges can carry after meeting certain age and years of service requirements. Coggins, a Sacramento native, will remain there as part of the federal bench.
Since 2023, Coggins has presided over the juvenile court of the Sacramento Count Superior Court. Previously, she was an administrative law judge in California Office of Administrative Hearingswhich oversees hearings before state and local agencies.
She also previously served as deputy secretary for legal affairs to the former governor. Jerry Brown and was a supervising attorney at the California Victim Compensation Board.
She received her bachelor’s degree from California State University, Sacramento in 2003 and her juris doctorate from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Lawin 2006.
The Eastern District covers federal lawsuits from the California-Oregon border through Bakersfield along the Nevada border. There are four federal court districts in California.
Coggins was the 201st judicial nominee President Joe Biden confirmed by the Senate. Biden, he said, has selected more women, people of color and LGBTQ people as judicial nominees than any U.S. president The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Among them is US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jacksonthe first black woman on the country’s highest bench.
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