1. Joan Louise Larsen was born on December 1,1968 and is an American attorney serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
15 Facts About Joan Larsen
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Joan Larsen previously was an associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 2015 to 2017.
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Joan Larsen earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Northern Iowa and received her Juris Doctor from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, where she graduated first in her class in 1993.
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Joan Larsen became a professor at the University of Michigan Law School in 1998.
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Joan Larsen clerked for Judge David B Sentelle of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit and for Justice Antonin Scalia of the US Supreme Court during the 1994 term.
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Joan Larsen served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the US Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel from January 2002 to May 2003 in the administration of President George W Bush.
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Joan Larsen did not contribute to the OLC's Torture Memos, and in March 2002 she authored a memo addressing detainee court access.
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On October 1,2015, Joan Larsen was appointed to the Michigan Supreme Court by Governor Rick Snyder to replace Justice Mary Beth Kelly, who announced plans to resign and return to private practice, effective October 1,2015.
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Joan Larsen was elected on November 8,2016, to fill the remainder of Kelly's unexpired term, which ran through the end of 2018.
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Joan Larsen was on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's May 2016 list of potential Supreme Court justices.
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Joan Larsen's service was terminated due to her appointment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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On May 8,2017, President Donald Trump nominated Joan Larsen to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, to the seat soon to be vacated by Judge David McKeague.
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Joan Larsen's nomination was held up for months by Michigan's Senators, Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters.
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Joan Larsen met separately with Peters and Stabenow on July 26,2017.
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Stabenow and Peters both returned blue slips in August 2017, allowing Joan Larsen's hearing to move forward.