Virginia M. Hernandez Covington
- Virginia M. Hernandez Covington
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name = Virginia Maria Hernandez Covington
birth_date = 1955
birth_place = Tampa, Florida
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Virginia Maria Hernandez Covington (born 1955) is an American lawyer and federal judge.
Covington was born in 1955 in Tampa. She received her Bachelor of Science degree "cum laude" from the University of Tampa in 1976, where she received the Outstanding Female Graduate Award. She received her Master of Business Administration from the University of Tampa in 1977 and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1980. At Georgetown she was elected to the "Tax Lawyer" law journal.
Covington served as a trial attorney for the Federal Trade Commission from 1980 to 1981. She served as an assistant state attorney for the 13th Judicial Circuit of Florida (Hillsborough County) from 1982 to 1983. Covington served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida from 1983 to 2001, working in the working in the Civil Division from 1983 to 1888 and as Assistant U.S. Attorney as chief of the Asset Forfeiture Section in the Criminal Division from 1989 to 2001.
On September 25, 2001, Florida Governor Jeb Bush appointed Covington to the Florida Second District Court of Appeal. President George W. Bush nominated Covington to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida on April 20, 2004, to the seat vacated by Ralph Wilson Nimmons, Jr. Confirmed by the Senate on September 7, 2004, she received commission three days later
Covington serves on the Tampa Division of the court.
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