1. Doris Lenea Pryor was born on 1977 and is an American lawyer who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2022.
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Doris Pryor served as a United States magistrate judge for the Southern District of Indiana from 2018 to 2022.
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Doris Pryor worked at a construction company from 1999 to 2000.
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Doris Pryor then attended the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where she was an editor of the Federal Communications Law Journal and won the top oralist award at the school's moot court competition.
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Doris Pryor served as National Security Chief for the office from 2014 to 2018.
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Doris Pryor co-founded the REACH program, a re-entry program that guides and supports former offenders who are at greater risk of returning to prison, in the Southern Indiana District Court.
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On November 17,2017, Pryor was selected to serve as a United States magistrate judge to fill the vacancy left by the death of Magistrate Judge Denise K LaRue.
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Doris Pryor served as United States magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana from March 1,2018 to December 9,2022.
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On May 25,2022, President Joe Biden nominated Doris Pryor to serve as a United States circuit judge for the Seventh Circuit.
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Doris Pryor was the first of Biden's court of appeals nominees to receive support from a state's two Republican senators.
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Doris Pryor became the first African American woman from Indiana to serve on the 7th Circuit.
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Doris Pryor received her judicial commission on December 9,2022.
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Doris Pryor was the ninth African American woman confirmed as a US circuit judge nominated by President Biden.