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Sparkle L. Sooknanan

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Sparkle L. Sooknanan

Sparkle Leah Sooknanan (born 1983) is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian-born American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia since 2025.

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Appointed by
Joe Biden
Preceded by
Florence Y. Pan
Born
Sparkle Leah Sooknanan1983 (age 41–42)San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
Education
St. Francis College (BS) Hofstra University (MBA)Brooklyn Law School (JD)

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Preceded byFlorence Y. Pan
Preceded byFlorence Y. Pan
Legal offices
Preceded byFlorence Y. Pan
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Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia 2025–present
Legal offices
Incumbent
Legal offices
Preceded byFlorence Y. Pan
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia 2025–present
Incumbent

References

  1. Sparkle L. Sooknanan at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
    https://www.fjc.gov/node/13761900
  2. "Sparkle Leah Sooknanan"
    https://www.martindale.com/attorney/sparkle-leah-sooknanan-168945456/
  3. "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees"
    https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/sooknanan_sjq.pdf
  4. News India Times
    https://newsindiatimes.com/biden-nominates-indo-caribbean-american-sparkle-l-sooknanan-for-the-u-s-district-court-for-d-c/
  5. Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
    http://web.archive.org/web/20130306025921/http://www.guardian.co.tt/lifestyle/2013-03-02/sparkle-shines-sotomayor
  6. "President Biden Names Forty-Sixth Round of Judicial Nominees and Announces Two New Nominees to Serve as U.S. Attorney"
    https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/02/21/president-biden-names-forty-sixth-round-of-judicial-nominees-and-announces-two-new-nominees-to-serve-as-u-s-attorney/
  7. The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/magazine/jones-day-trump.html
  8. The American Prospect
    https://prospect.org/justice/2024-04-05-biden-nominee-sooknanan-testimony/
  9. "BIDEN NOMINATES NORTON RECOMMENDATION, SPARKLE L. SOOKNANAN, FOR THE U.S. DISTRICT COURT FOR D.C."
    https://norton.house.gov/media/press-releases/biden-nominates-norton-recommendation-sparkle-l-sooknanan-us-district-court-dc
  10. "Nominations Sent to the Senate"
    https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/02/27/nominations-sent-to-the-senate-138/
  11. "Nominations"
    https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/03/20/2024/nominations
  12. Courthouse News
    https://www.courthousenews.com/senate-republicans-buck-blue-slips-on-us-attorney-nominees/
  13. The American Prospect
    https://prospect.org/justice/2024-02-28-biden-judge-nominee-vulture-funds-puerto-rican-debt/
  14. "Results of Executive Business Meeting – April 18, 2024"
    https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2024-04-18_-_ebm_-_results.pdf
  15. "Senate Judiciary Committee Advances Ten Nominations to the Full Senate"
    https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/releases/senate-judiciary-committee-advances-ten-nominations-to-the-full-senate
  16. United States Senate
    https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00296.htm
  17. United States Senate
    https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00306.htm
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