- Sandra Segal Ikuta
Sandra Segal Ikuta (born
June 24 ,1954 inLos Angeles, California ) is afederal judge on theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit .Nomination and confirmation
She was nominated by President
George W. Bush onFebruary 8 ,2006 to fill the seat vacated by JudgeJames R. Browning , who tookSenior status . Ikuta was voted unanimously out of theSenate Judiciary Committee onMay 26 ,2006F , and confirmed [http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00175 81-0] by theU.S. Senate onJune 19 ,2006 . She is the sixth judge appointed by Bush to the Ninth Circuit.Ikuta now works alongside her former boss, Judge
Alex Kozinski , for whom she clerked from 1988-1989. He testified on her behalf at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination.Education and career
Ikuta received a master's in journalism from
Columbia University in 1978. She had previously attendedStanford University for two years before moving toUniversity of California, Berkeley to complete her undergraduate degree. She received herJ.D. fromUCLA School of Law in 1988. While there she worked on the law review. She went on to clerk for Ninth Circuit JudgeAlex Kozinski andU.S. Supreme Court JusticeSandra Day O'Connor . She became an associate of thelaw firm O’Melveny & Myers in 1990 and went on to become a partner in 1997. At the time of her nomination she had been general counsel of theCalifornia Resources Agency since January 2004.Ikuta's first published opinion on the Ninth Circuit was "United States v. Baldrich", issued
December 27 ,2006 .See also
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* [http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/tGetInfo?jid=3121 Federal Judicial Center Profile]
* [http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov/web/ocelibra.nsf/0/d3a7ce57c289710f88257110006b531e?OpenDocument Attorney Sandra S. Ikuta Nominated to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals] -February 9 ,2006
* [http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/ikutaresume.htm Ikuta's Resume] - from the Department of JusticeOffice of Legal Policy
* [http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/72E64E983042E1A0882572510000D1C8/$file/0550676.pdf?openelement "United States v. Baldrich" (first precedential opinion authored by Ikuta)]
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