Confirmed

Professionally Diverse

Brendan Hurson

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

NominatedMarch 20, 2023

ConfirmedOctober 4, 2023

  • Brendan Hurson serves as a U.S. magistrate judge, a role he has had since 2022.

  • Previously, Hurson worked as an Assistant Federal Defender and Senior Litigation Counsel at the Federal Defender’s Office of the District of Maryland from 2007 to 2017 and 2018 to 2022.

  • Hurson also worked as an Assistant Federal Defender for the Federal Defender’s Office of the Virgin Islands from 2017 to 2018.

  • He worked as an associate at Schulman, Hershfield, and Gilden, P.A. in Baltimore, Maryland from 2006 to 2007.

  • Hurson served as a law clerk for Judge Margaret B. Seymour on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina from 2005 to 2006.

  • He graduated with honors from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2005 and from Providence College, cum laude, in 2000.