Todd E. Edelman

Todd Eric Edelman (born 1968) is an Associate Judge for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and is a former nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Todd Eric Edelman
Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Assumed office
2010
Appointed byBarack Obama
Preceded byCheryl M. Long
Personal details
Born1968 (age 5253)
St. Louis, Missouri
Alma materYale University (B.A.)
New York University School of Law (J.D.)
ProfessionAttorney

Biography

Edelman was born in 1968, in St. Louis, Missouri.[1] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in 1990 from Yale University. He received a Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 1994 from the New York University School of Law. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge William B. Bryant of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, from 1994 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997, he was an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center. He worked for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia from 1997 to 2005, during which time he served as a Staff Attorney for the Trial Division from 1997 to 2001, a Supervising Attorney for the Trial Division from 2001 to 2002, the Chief of the Serious Felony Section from 2002 to 2004, and the Training Director from 2004 to 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he was of counsel at the law firm Bredhoff & Kaiser, P.L.L.C. in Washington, D.C. From 2008 to 2010, he was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He has served as an Associate Judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, since 2010.[2]

Expired nomination to district court

On April 28, 2016, President Obama nominated Edelman to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to the seat vacated by Judge Richard W. Roberts, who retired on March 16, 2016. His nomination expired on January 3, 2017, with the end of the 114th Congress.[3]

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