Laura Provinzino
Laura Provinzino | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota | |
| Assumed office September 16, 2024 | |
| Appointed by | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Wilhelmina Wright |
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| Born | 1975 (age 48–49) St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Education | Lewis & Clark College (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (BA) Yale University (JD) |
Laura Margarete Provinzino (born 1975)[1] is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Education
[edit]Provinzino received a Bachelor of Arts with honors in international affairs from Lewis and Clark College in 1998. In 2000, as a Rhodes Scholar, she attended Balliol College, Oxford, where she studied philosophy, politics, and economics.[2] She received a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2003.[3]
Career
[edit]Provinzino served as a law clerk to Judge Diana E. Murphy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from 2003 to 2004. After her clerkship, she worked as an associate at Robins Kaplan LLP from 2006 to 2010 in Minneapolis, where she focused on medical malpractice and product liability cases. She served as an assistant United States attorney from 2010 to 2024.[4]
In 2023, Provinzino was one of three prosecutors who tried the case against Anton Lazzaro, who was charged with the human trafficking of several teenage girls. Lazzaro was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison.[5]
Federal judicial service
[edit]On June 12, 2024, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Provinzino to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. She was nominated to the seat vacated by Judge Wilhelmina Wright, who assumed senior status on February 15.[6] On June 13, her nomination was sent to the Senate. On July 10, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[7] On August 1, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–8 vote.[8] On September 11, the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 55–39 vote.[9] On September 12, Provinzino was confirmed by a 54–41 vote.[10][11] She received her judicial commission on September 16.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
- ^ "Laura Provinzino, US Attorney's Office". Disability Justice. Retrieved October 5, 2024.
- ^ "President Biden Names Fifty-First Round of Judicial Nominees" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. June 12, 2024. Retrieved June 12, 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Sorbe, Kyle (June 12, 2024). "Klobuchar, Smith Statements on Nomination of Laura Provinzino".
- ^ Sukhram, Daren (12 September 2023). "Meet the women who prosecuted 'Minnesota's Jeffrey Epstein'". KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News. Retrieved 26 June 2024.
- ^ "Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. June 13, 2024.
- ^ "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. July 9, 2024.
- ^ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – August 1, 2024" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
- ^ "On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture: Laura Margarete Provinzino to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Minnesota)". United States Senate. September 11, 2024. Retrieved September 11, 2024.
- ^ "On the Nomination (Confirmation: Laura Margarete Provinzino, of Minnesota, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Minnesota)". United States Senate. September 12, 2024. Retrieved September 12, 2024.
- ^ Montemayor, Stephen (2024-09-12). "Senate confirms Assistant U.S. Attorney Laura Provinzino to be next Minnesota federal judge". The Minnesota Star Tribune. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
- ^ Laura Provinzino at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
External links
[edit]- Laura Provinzino at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- 1975 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American judges
- 21st-century American lawyers
- 21st-century American women judges
- 21st-century American women lawyers
- Alumni of the University of Oxford
- American Rhodes Scholars
- Assistant United States Attorneys
- Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota
- Lewis & Clark College alumni
- Minnesota lawyers
- People from St. Cloud, Minnesota
- United States district court judges appointed by Joe Biden
- Yale Law School alumni