On September 25, 2013,
President Barack Obama nominated two attorneys, Theodore David Chuang and
George Jarrod Hazel, to serve as judges in the U.S. District Court for the
District of Maryland. If the United States Senate confirms their nomination,
Chuang and Hazel will succeed retiring judges Alexander Williams Jr. and Roger
W. Titus. Williams and Titus currently serve on the bench in
Greenbelt. Williams took senior status on May 8, 2013 and, at the
beginning of the year, Titus announced that he will begin senior status in
January 2014.
Chuang graduated from
Harvard Law School in 1994. He began his legal career as a law clerk on
the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Dorothy W.
Nelson. From 1995 to 1998, Chuang was a trial attorney in the Civil
Rights Division of the United States Justice Department. He then served
as Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts from 1998 to
2004. For three years, from 2004 to 2007, Chuang worked at Wilmer
Cutler Pickering Hale and Door LLP. From 2007 to 2009, Chuang was
the Chief Investigative Counsel for the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform. In 2009, Chuang was the Chief Investigative Counsel
for the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Since 2009,
Chuang has served as Deputy General Counsel of the United States Department of
Homeland Security.
Hazel graduated from
Georgetown University Law Center in 1999. From 1999 to 2004 Hazel was a
litigator at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. From 2005 to 2008 Hazel
served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of
Columbia. From 2008 to 2010 Hazel served as an Assistant United States
Attorney in the District of Maryland. Since 2011, Hazel has served as the
Chief Deputy State’s Attorney for Baltimore City.
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