Danya Dayson
{{Short description|American judge}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Danya Dayson
|image = Danya Dayson.jpg
| office1 = Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
| president1 = Barack Obama
| term_start1 = April 27, 2012
| term_end1 =
| succeeding1 =
| predecessor1 = Stephanie Duncan-Peters
| successor1 =
| birth_name = Danya Ariel Swinson{{Cite web |date=June 15, 2011 |title=Questionnaire for Nominees to the District of Columbia Courts |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-112shrg72555/pdf/CHRG-112shrg72555.pdf |access-date=June 15, 2021 |publisher=United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs |page=75}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|10|01}}
| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
| death_place =
| party =
| spouse = Michael Murphy
| relations =
| children =
| education = Appalachian State University (BA)
Georgetown University (JD)
| awards =
}}
Danya Ariel Dayson (born October 1, 1972) is an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dccourts.gov/superior-court/judges#associate |title=District of Columbia superior court judges|last=|first=|date=|website=www.dccourts.gov|language=en|access-date=December 13, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.dccourts.gov/sites/default/files/2017-03/DCSC_Bio-Dayson.pdf |title=Bio |last=|first=|date=|website=www.dccourts.gov|language=en|access-date=December 13, 2019}}
Education and career
Dayson earned her Bachelor of Arts from Appalachian State University and her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center.{{Cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/11/president-obama-nominates-three-superior-court-district-columbia |title=President Obama Nominates Three to Superior Court of the District of Columbia |last=|first=|date=July 11, 2011 |website=White House|language=en|access-date=December 13, 2019}} {{PD notice}}
After graduating, she clerked for Judge Robert E. Morin. She then worked in private practice.
= D.C. superior court =
President Barack Obama nominated Dayson on July 11, 2011, to a 15-year term as an associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by Stephanie Duncan-Peters. On November 8, 2011, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on her nomination{{Cite web|url= https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/nominations-of-nancy-ware-to-be-director-dc-court-services-and-offender-supervision-agency-michael-hughes-to-be-us-marshal-dc-superior-court-danya-dayson-peter-krauthamer-and-john-mccabe-to-be-associate-judges-dc-superior-court |title= Nominations of Nancy Ware to be Director, D.C. Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency; Michael Hughes to be U.S. Marshal, D.C. Superior Court; Danya Dayson, Peter Krauthamer, and John McCabe to be Associate Judges, D.C. Superior Court |last=|first=|date= November 8, 2011 |website=United States Senate|language=en|access-date=December 13, 2019}} and on the following day, November 9, 2011, the Committee reported her nomination favorably to the senate floor. On November 18, 2011, the full Senate confirmed her nomination by voice vote.{{Cite web|url= https://www.congress.gov/nomination/112th-congress/753?s=1&r=410 |title= PN753 — 112th Congress (2011-2012) |last=|first=|date=November 18, 2011|website=United States Congress|language=en|access-date=December 13, 2019}} She was sworn in on April 27, 2012.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dccourts.gov/sites/default/files/2017-05/FCP-JUNE1st2012web.pdf |title=Full Court Press |last=|first=|date=June 2012 |website=www.dccourts.gov|language=en|access-date=December 13, 2019}}
Personal life
Dayson was born in New York City, raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and has lived in Washington, D.C. since 1994. She is married to Michael Murphy and has one child.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/PreparedStatementDayson20111108.pdf |title=Opening Statement of Danya A. Dayson |last=|first=|date=November 8, 2011 |website=www.United States Senate|language=en|access-date=December 13, 2019}}
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