Showing posts with label U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie Dawkins Davis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie Dawkins Davis. Show all posts

Thursday, February 10, 2022

President Biden Nominates Stephanie Dawkins Davis to 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals

President Biden has nominated U.S. District Court Judge Stephanie Dawkins Davis to serve on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If the U.S. Senate confirms Davis, she will become the second Black woman to serve on the 6th Circuit and the first from Michigan.

Davis, 55, is currently serving on the U.S. Courthouse in Flint.

She graduated from Wichita State University in 1989 and Washington University School of Law in St. Louis in 1992.

Davis previously served as a magistrate judge, appointed in 2016. One of her high-profile cases involved arraigning Amor Ftouhi in the 2017 terrorism and stabbing attack at Flint’s Bishop International Airport. Ftouhi was later convicted.

Davis started her career as a civil defense attorney at the firm Dickinson Wright PLLC in Detroit before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where she worked as a federal prosecutor for 18 years, starting in 1997. McQuade later appointed her as her executive assistant U.S. attorney in 2010 — a post she held through 2015.