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Clemson University, 1980
University of South Carolina School of Law, 1984
Mary Geiger Lewis is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina. She joined the court in 2012 after a nomination from President Barack Obama.
A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Lewis earned her bachelor's degree from Clemson University in 1980 and her J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1984.[1]
On March 16, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Lewis to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina vacated by Henry Franklin Floyd. Lewis was rated Unanimously Qualified for the nomination by the American Bar Association. Hearings on Lewis' nomination were held before the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 15, 2012, and her nomination was reported by U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on March 8, 2012. Lewis was confirmed on a recorded 64-29 vote of the U.S. Senate on June 18, 2012, and she received her commission on June 20, 2012.[1][2][3]
Chief Judge: Timothy M. Cain • David Norton (South Carolina judge) • Bruce Hendricks • Richard Mark Gergel • Mary Geiger Lewis • Jacquelyn Austin • Donald Coggins Jr. • Sherri Lydon • Joseph Dawson (South Carolina)
Joseph Anderson • Henry Herlong • Cameron Currie • Terry Wooten • Robert Harwell •
Thomas Bee • William Drayton • John Drayton • Thomas Lee • Robert Budd Gilchrist • Andrew Gordon Magrath • George Seabrook Bryan • William Hiram Brawley • Clyde Hamilton • William Traxler • Dennis Shedd • Charles Henry Simonton • Henry Augustus Middleton Smith • Joseph Travis Johnson • George Anderson • Patrick Duffy • Margaret Seymour • Henry Floyd • Henry Hitt Watkins • Ernest Ford Cochran • Robert Chapman • John Lyles Glenn • Francis Kerschner Myers • Charles Wyche • Falcon Hawkins • Robert Hemphill • Donald S. Russell • Charles Simons • Charles Weston Houck • Matthew Perry • George Timmerman • Julius Waring • William Walter Wilkins • Ashton Williams • J. Michelle Childs • James Robert Martin, Jr. • A. Marvin Quattlebaum Jr. •
David Norton (South Carolina judge) • Joseph Anderson • Margaret Seymour • Terry Wooten • Robert Harwell • Falcon Hawkins • Robert Hemphill • Charles Simons • Solomon Blatt • Charles Weston Houck • James Robert Martin, Jr. •
Federal judges nominated by Barack Obama
Federal courts:
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of South Carolina • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of South Carolina
State courts:
South Carolina Supreme Court • South Carolina Court of Appeals • South Carolina Circuit Courts • South Carolina Masters-in-Equity • South Carolina Family Courts • South Carolina Magistrate Courts • South Carolina Municipal Courts • South Carolina Probate Courts
State resources:
Courts in South Carolina • South Carolina judicial elections • Judicial selection in South Carolina
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