Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong

Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong (née Maame Abena Famanyame Ewusi-Mensah; born 1976) is an American attorney serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. She previously served as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court from 2015 to 2022.

Infobox

Appointed by

Jerry Brown

Preceded by

Thomas R. White

Succeeded by

Adrian Gidaya Roxas

Born

Maame Abena Famanyame Ewusi-Mensah1976 (age 48–49)Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Political party

Democratic

Education

Harvard University (BA)Yale University (JD)

Party

Democratic

Tables

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Preceded byChristina A. Snyder

Legal offices

Preceded byChristina A. Snyder

Legal offices

Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California 2022–present

Legal offices

Incumbent

Legal offices
Preceded byChristina A. Snyder	Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California 2022–present	Incumbent

References

"Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees"
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Frimpong%20SJQ%20Public%20Final.pdf
www.metnews.com
http://www.metnews.com/articles/2015/judg111815.htm
www.ca.gov
https://www.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2015/11/17/news19203/index.html
"Meet Judge Maame Frimpong '93"
https://webb.myschoolapp.com/page/news-detail?pk=982845&siteId=1122&ssl=1
"Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong - Top Ghanaian-American legal brain tasked to solve Ghana's power crisis | National Black Lawyers"
https://nbltop100.org/ewusi-mensah-frimpong-top-ghanaian-american-legal-brain-tasked-to-solve-ghanas-power-crisis/
Trellis
http://trellis.law/judge/maame.ewusi.mensah.frimpong
Ghana News Agency
https://www.gna.org.gh/1.21192447
The White House
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/08/president-biden-names-seventh-round-of-judicial-nominees/
Alliance for Justice
https://afj.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/A-Fairer-Court-How-President-Biden-and-Congress-Raised-the-Bar-in-2021.pdf
The White House Briefing Room
https://web.archive.org/web/20210908150123/https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/08/president-biden-names-seventh-round-of-judicial-nominees/
"Nominations and Withdrawal Sent to the Senate"
https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/20/nominations-and-withdrawal-sent-to-the-senate-3/
"Nominations"
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/10/13/2021/nominations
"Results of Executive Business Meeting – December 2, 2021"
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Results%20of%20Executive%20Business%20Meeting%2012.2.21.pdf
United States Senate
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00514.htm
United States Senate
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=117&session=1&vote=00515
Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Cente
https://www.fjc.gov/node/11226131
Federal judge blocks 'roving' immigration arrests amid Los Angeles crackdown
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/federal-judge-blocks-roving-immigration-arrests-amid-los-angeles-crackdown-00449914
Case No. 2:25-cv-05605-MEMF-SP (pdf)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.975351/gov.uscourts.cacd.975351.87.0.pdf
SCOTUSblog
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/supreme-court-allows-federal-officers-to-more-freely-make-immigration-stops-in-los-angeles/