Confirmed

Professionally Diverse

Jamal Whitehead

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

NominatedJuly 13, 2022

ConfirmedFebruary 28, 2023

  • Jamal Whitehead was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington on February 28, 2023.

  • Previously, he was a shareholder at Schroeter Goldmark and Bender, where he worked since 2016. From 2010 to 2014, he was a Senior Trial Attorney at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

  • From 2007 to 2010, he worked as an associate at Garvey Schubert Barer.

  • Whitehead has served on the Executive Board of the Federal Bar Association and the Washington State Bar Association’s (WSBA) Labor & Employment Law Section. He is also a past president of the Loren Miller Bar Association, which is the state’s largest and oldest bar for lawyers of color.

  • He received his J.D. from Seattle University Law School in 2007 and his B.A. from the University of Washington in 2004.