Victor Allen Bolden (born May 6, 1965) is a
United States district judge of the
United States District Court for the District of Connecticut and former corporation counsel for the City of New Haven, Connecticut.
Biography
Bolden received an
Artium Baccalaureus
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degree in 1986 from
Columbia University. He received a
Juris Doctor
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in 1989 from
Harvard Law School
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. He began his legal career as a Marvin Karpatkin Fellow, from 1989 to 1990, and then as a staff attorney at the
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, from 1990 to 1994. He served as assistant counsel at the
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, from 1994 to 2000. From 2000 to 2005, he worked at the law firm of Wiggin & Dana, where he handled a wide variety of commercial litigation matters. From 2005 to 2009, he returned to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund as general counsel. From 2009 to 2014, he served as corporation counsel for the City of
New Haven, Connecticut.
Federal judicial service
On June 16, 2014, President
Barack Obama nominated Bolden to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, to the seat vacated by Judge
Janet Bond Arterton, who assumed
senior status on July 1, 2014. On July 29, 2014 a hearing on his nomination was held before the
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. On September 18, 2014 his nomination was reported out of committee by a 10–8 vote. On November 18, 2014 Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid filed for
cloture on his nomination. On November 19, 2014, the
United States Senate invoked
cloture on his nomination by a 51–44 vote. On November 20, 2014, Bolden was confirmed by a 49–46 vote.
He received his judicial commission on November 21, 2014.
See also
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List of African-American federal judges
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List of African-American jurists
References
External links
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1965 births
Living people
21st-century American judges
African-American judges
African-American lawyers
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Connecticut lawyers
Harvard Law School alumni
Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
United States district court judges appointed by Barack Obama