Lydia Griggsby

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Lydia Griggsby

|image = Lydia Kay Griggsby (cropped).jpg

|caption = Griggsby in 2017

|office = Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland

|appointer = Joe Biden

|term_start = July 20, 2021

|term_end =

|predecessor = Catherine C. Blake

|successor =

|office1 = Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims

|appointer1 = Barack Obama

|term_start1 = December 5, 2014

|term_end1 = July 23, 2021

|predecessor1 = Francis Allegra

|successor1 = Philip Hadji

|birth_name = Lydia Kay Griggsby

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|01|16}}

|birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

|death_date =

|death_place =

|education = University of Pennsylvania (BA)
Georgetown University (JD)

}}

Lydia Kay Griggsby (born January 16, 1968){{Cite web |last=Voruganti |first=Harsh |date=April 6, 2021 |title=Judge Lydia Griggsby – Nominee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland |url=https://vettingroom.org/2021/04/06/judge-lydia-griggsby/ |access-date=May 13, 2021 |website=The Vetting Room |language=en}} is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. She is a former Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims and Chief Counsel for Private and Information Policy for the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Education and career

Griggsby received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990 from the University of Pennsylvania. She received a Juris Doctor in 1993 from the Georgetown University Law Center. She began her legal career as an associate with the law firm of DLA Piper LLP, from 1993 to 1995. She served as a trial attorney in the Commercial Litigation Branch of the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice, from 1995 to 1998. She served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, from 1998 to 2004. She worked as Counsel for the United States Senate Select Committee on Ethics, from 2004 to 2005. She served as Privacy Counsel for the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 2004 to 2008, and as Chief Counsel for Privacy and Information Policy for senator Patrick Leahy{{Cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/look-president-bidens-first-11-144606553.html|title = A look at President Biden's first 11 judicial nominees| date=30 March 2021 }} on the same committee until 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/10/president-obama-nominates-three-serve-us-court-federal-claims|title=President Obama Nominates Three to Serve on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims|date=April 10, 2014|website=White House}}

Federal judicial service

= United States Court of Federal Claims service =

On April 10, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Griggsby to serve as a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, to the seat vacated by Judge Francis Allegra, whose term expired October 21, 2013.{{Cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/04/10/presidential-nominations-sent-senate|title=Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate|date=April 10, 2014|website=White House}} A hearing on her nomination before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee was held on June 4, 2014.{{cite web|title=June 4, 2014: Judicial Nominations|date=4 June 2014 |url=http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/judicial-nominations-2014-06-04|publisher=United States Senate}} On June 12, 2014, her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.{{Cite web|url=http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Results%20of%20Executive%20Business%20Meeting%20-%2006-12-14.pdf|title=Results of Executive Business Meeting - June 12, 2014}} On December 3, 2014, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on her nomination.

On December 4, 2014, the Senate invoked cloture on Griggsby's nomination by a 53–36 vote.{{Cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=2&vote=00311|title=On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Lydia Kay Griggsby, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims)|website=www.senate.gov}} Later that day, her nomination was confirmed by a voice vote. She received her commission on December 5, 2014.{{FJC Bio|nid=10270716|inline=yes}} She took the oath of office on December 15, 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://www.uscfc.uscourts.gov/node/2703|title=Lydia Kay Griggsby took the oath of office on December 15, 2014, as Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.|website=www.uscfc.uscourts.gov|access-date=2019-08-06}} Her service on the claims court terminated on July 23, 2021, when she was sworn in as an Article III district court judge.

= District court service =

On March 30, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Griggsby to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.{{Cite web|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/03/30/president-biden-announces-intent-to-nominate-11-judicial-candidates/|title=President Biden Announces Intent to Nominate 11 Judicial Candidates|date=March 30, 2021|website=The White House}} On April 19, 2021, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Griggsby to the seat vacated by Judge Catherine C. Blake, who assumed senior status on April 2, 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/19/nominations-sent-to-the-senate-11/|title=Nominations Sent to the Senate|date=April 19, 2021|website=The White House}} On May 12, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.{{Cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/05/05/2021/nominations|title=Nominations | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|website=www.judiciary.senate.gov|date=12 May 2021 }} On June 10, 2021, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 16–6 vote.{{Cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Results%20of%20Executive%20Business%20Meeting%20June%2010,%202021.pdf|title=Results of Executive Business Meeting – June 10, 2021, Senate Judiciary Committee}} On June 16, 2021, the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 57–41 vote.{{Cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00235.htm|title= On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture: Lydia Kay Griggsby to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Maryland)|website=www.senate.gov}} Her nomination was confirmed later that day by a 59–39 vote.{{Cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00237.htm|title=On the Nomination (Confirmation: Lydia Kay Griggsby, of Maryland, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Maryland)|website=www.senate.gov}} She received her judicial commission on July 20, 2021. She was sworn in on July 23, 2021.{{Cite press release|title=Swearing-In of Lydia Kay Griggsby as United States District Judge|date=July 23, 2021|publisher=United States District Court for the District of Maryland|url=https://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/news/swearing-lydia-kay-griggsby-united-states-district-judge-2021-07-23t000000|access-date=August 10, 2021}} She is the first woman of color to serve as a judge on the district court in Maryland.{{Cite web|last=Fenton|first=Justin|date=March 30, 2021|title=Biden to nominate two Maryland women to become federal judges, including the first woman of color|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-biden-nominate-maryland-federal-judges-20210330-a5qt2hmrcfbpvow6a4ao2m3xo4-story.html|access-date=March 31, 2021|website=baltimoresun.com}}