1. Rudolph Contreras was born on December 6,1962 and is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
13 Facts About Rudolph Contreras
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Rudolph Contreras served as Presiding Judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2021 to 2023.
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Rudolph Contreras's parents were immigrants from Cuba, and he grew up in Miami.
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Rudolph Contreras graduated from Florida State University in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science.
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Rudolph Contreras then attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School, graduating in 1991 with a Juris Doctor and Order of the Coif honors.
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From 1991 to 1994, Rudolph Contreras was an associate at Jones Day.
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Rudolph Contreras returned as an AUSA to the District of Columbia from 2006 to 2012, serving concurrently as chief of the civil division.
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On July 28,2011, President Barack Obama nominated Contreras to fill a vacancy on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to replace Judge Ricardo M Urbina, who assumed senior status in 2011.
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On May 19,2021, Rudolph Contreras was named the Presiding Judge.
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On November 17,2016, Rudolph Contreras dismissed a lawsuit against US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell seeking to compel a vote on the US Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland, finding that the plaintiff, who had simply said he was a voter, had no standing to sue.
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In 2017, Contreras was assigned the case of United States of America v Michael T Flynn, the former National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump.
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On December 7,2017, Rudolph Contreras was recused from further sentencing hearings scheduled to take place in the future.
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On March 5,2021, Rudolph Contreras ruled that the states of Illinois, Nevada, and Virginia had ratified the Equal Rights Amendment too late for the amendment to be valid, as they did so after the congressionally imposed 1982 deadline.