Maribeth Raffinan
{{Short description|American judge (born 1970)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Maribeth Raffinan
|image = Maribeth Raffinan.jpg
| office = Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
| president = Barack Obama
| term_start = October 29, 2010
| term_end =
| predecessor = Odessa F. Vincent
| successor =
| birth_name = Maria Elizabeth Raffinan{{Cite web |date=September 21, 2010 |title=Questionnaire for Nominees to the District of Columbia Courts |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-111shrg63831/pdf/CHRG-111shrg63831.pdf |access-date=June 15, 2021 |publisher=United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs}}
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1970|09|02}}
| birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
| death_place =
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| education = Boston College (BA)
Catholic University of America (JD)
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}}
Maria Elizabeth "Maribeth" Raffinan (born September 2, 1970) 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 15, 2019}}{{Cite web|url= https://www.dccourts.gov/sites/default/files/2017-03/DCSC_Bio_Raffinan.pdf |title=Bio |last=|first=|date=|website=www.dccourts.gov|language=en|access-date=December 15, 2019}}
Education and career
Raffinan earned her Bachelor of Arts from Boston College in 1992, and her Juris Doctor from Columbus School of Law for the Catholic University of America in 1995.{{Cite web|url= https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-names-maribeth-raffinan-superior-court-district-columbia |title=President Obama Names Maribeth Raffinan to Superior Court of the District of Columbia |last=|first=|date=July 28, 2010 |website=White House|language=en|access-date=December 15, 2019}}
From 1996 to 1999, Raffinan worked in the Office of the Federal Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. From September 1999 to October 2010, she worked as an attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.
= D.C. Superior Court =
President Barack Obama nominated Raffinan on July 28, 2010, to a 15-year term as an associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to the seat vacated by Odessa F. Vincent. On September 21, 2010, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on her nomination.{{Cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/111/chrg/CHRG-111shrg63831/CHRG-111shrg63831.pdf |title= Nomination of Maria Elizabeth Raffinan |last=|first=|date= September 21, 2010 |website=United States Congress|language=en|access-date=December 15, 2019}} On September 29, 2010, the Committee reported her nomination favorably to the senate floor and later that day, the full Senate confirmed her nomination by voice vote.{{Cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/111th-congress/2032?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22Raffinan%22%5D%7D&s=7&r=1 |title=PN2032 — Maria Elizabeth Raffinan — The Judiciary |last=|first=|date=September 29, 2010 |website=United States Congress|language=en|access-date=December 15, 2019}} She was sworn in on October 29, 2010.{{Cite web|url= https://www.dccourts.gov/sites/default/files/matters-docs/Family_AnnualReport2010.pdf |title=Family Court 2010 Annual Report |last=|first=|date=March 31, 2011 |website=www.dccourts.gov|language=en|access-date=December 15, 2019}}
Personal life
Raffinan was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and was raised there and in Clearwater, Florida. She moved to Washington, D.C. in 1992 and has been living there since. She has a daughter named Leah, a son named Jonah, and a husband, Efrem Levy.
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Category:21st-century American judges
Category:21st-century American women judges
Category:Boston College alumni
Category:Columbus School of Law alumni
Category:Judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia