WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden announces his intent to nominate three individuals to the federal district courts - all of whom are eminently qualified, experienced and committed to the rule of law and our Constitution.
With this election, the President also continues to deliver on his promise to ensure that the country's courts reflect the diversity that is one of our greatest strengths - both in terms of personal and professional background.
This will be President Biden's fifty-fourth round of nominations for federal judgeships, bringing the number of announced federal judicial nominees to 257.
Notices from the United States District Courts
Elizabeth C. Coombe: nominee for United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of New York
Elizabeth C. Coombe has served as the First Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York since 2018. She joined the Office in 2003 and previously served as Chief of its Criminal Division from 2014 to 2018. Earlier in her career, Ms. Coombe served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia from 1998 to 2003, as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Section from 1996 to 1997, and as a staff attorney in the Securities and Exchange Commission's Enforcement Division from 1994 to 1996. From 1992 to 1994, she served as a law clerk to Judge Diana E. Murphy of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. Ms. Coombe received her J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1992 and her B.A., cum laude, from Hamilton College in 1989.
Sarah M. Davenport: nominee for Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
Sarah M. Davenport has served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico in Las Cruces, New Mexico, since 2009. Prior to that, she worked as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in Las Cruces from 2008 to 2009 and as a law clerk in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico from 2006 to 2008. Ms. Davenport received her J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2006 and her B.Mus. from New Mexico State University in 1998.
Sharad H. Desai: candidate for United States District Court Judge for the District of Arizona
Sharad H. Desai has been vice president and general counsel of Honeywell International's Integrated Supply Chain and Information Technology division in Phoenix, Arizona, since 2023. He has served in senior legal counsel roles at Honeywell since 2015. From 2007 to 2015, Mr. Desai worked as an attorney at Osborn Maledon, P.A. in Phoenix, first as an associate and later as a partner. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Justice Rebecca White Berch of the Arizona Supreme Court from 2006 to 2007. Mr. Desai received his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 2006 and his B.A. and B.S. from the University of Arizona in 2003.
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