Madeline Hughes Haikala

Madeline Haikala

Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
Incumbent
Assumed office October 16, 2013
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Inge Johnson
Personal details
Born	Madeline Clair Hughes 1964 (age 51–52) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Alma mater	Williams College Tulane University

Madeline Hughes Haikala (born 1964) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

Biography

Judge Madeline Hughes Haikala was born Madeline Clair Hughes in 1964, in New Orleans, Louisiana.^[1] She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1986 from Williams College. She received her Juris Doctor in 1989 from Tulane University Law School, graduating Order of the Coif. She worked in private practice from 1989 until 2011, serving at the law firm of Lightfoot, Franklin & White LLC in Birmingham, Alabama, handling a broad range of commercial litigation at the trial and appellate levels, before state and federal courts. From 1998 to 2005, she taught Appellate Law at Cumberland School of Law as an adjunct professor. She served as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Northern District of Alabama from 2012 to 2013.^[2]

Federal judicial service

On May 9, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Haikala to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, to the seat vacated by Judge Inge Prytz Johnson, who took senior status on October 24, 2012.^[2] She received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 19, 2013, and her nomination was reported to the floor of the Senate on July 18, 2013, by voice vote. The Senate confirmed her nomination on October 14, 2013, by a vote of 90 ayes to 0 nays.^[3] She received her commission on October 16, 2013.

References

↑ All the degrees and experience is a waste when judges are not fair and do not have the will or commonsense to make a fair judgement. http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/01/judge_throws_out_case_against.html Senate Judiciary Committee Nomination Questionnaire
1 2 Nomination announcement from whitehouse.gov
↑ Senate Roll Call

External links

Madeline Hughes Haikala at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Legal offices
Preceded by Inge Johnson	Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama 2013–present	Incumbent

Current active district judges of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

M. Alabama	Watkins 2 seats vacant

N. Alabama	Bowdre Coogler Proctor Hopkins Kallon Haikala 2 seats vacant

S. Alabama	Steele DuBose 1 seat vacant

M. Florida	Merryday Kovachevich Whittemore Corrigan Covington Howard Scriven Honeywell Dalton Chappell Davis Byron Mendoza 2 seats vacant

N. Florida	Rodgers Walker 2 seats vacant

S. Florida	Moore Zloch Moreno Ungaro Lenard Middlebrooks Dimitrouleas Marra Martinez Altonaga Cooke Williams Scola Gayles Bloom Rosenberg 2 seats vacant

M. Georgia	Land Treadwell Abrams 1 seat vacant

N. Georgia	Thrash Murphy Story Duffey Batten Totenberg Jones May Cohen Ross 1 seat vacant

S. Georgia	Wood Moore Hall

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