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Nancy Maldonado was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on July 8, 2024.
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Prior to this, Judge Maldonado served on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois from July 19, 2022.
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Previously, Maldonado was a partner at Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C. in Chicago, a role she has had since 2010. Maldonado has achieved significant victories for workers in employment disputes, including a multi-million dollar class action brought on behalf of migrant farm workers.
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Maldonado is a member of the Hispanic Lawyers Association of Illinois, and received its “Mentor of the Year” award in 2007 for counseling law students.
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Maldonado has served on the board of directors for the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law since 2005.
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Upon confirmation, she became the first Latina woman to serve as a judge for the U.S. Northern District of Illinois.
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Maldonado received her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2001, and her A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College in 1997.