Friday, June 19, 2009 5:00 PM
Obama Nominates Two More Appellate Judges
President Obama appointed two more appellate judges today -- Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr. for the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Beverly B. Martin for the Eleventh Circuit. Greenaway currently serves on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and Martin serves on the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Obama has nominated a total of five appellate judges now. He nominated his first three in late March and early April.
Read their bios, per the White House, after the jump.
Greenaway:
Greenaway, Jr., 51, has served as a U.S. District Court Judge in New Jersey for more than 12 years. Prior to being confirmed to the federal bench, he was an in-house general attorney at Johnson & Johnson for six years. Before that, Judge Greenaway served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Newark. As a federal prosecutor, Judge Greenaway spent four years in the Criminal Division and served for one year as Chief of the Narcotics Division.
After graduating from law school, Judge Greenaway spent a year working in private practice before clerking for Judge Vincent Broderick, a U.S. District Judge in the Southern District of New York. He then returned to private practice for two years as a litigation associate.
Judge Greenaway has received numerous awards recognizing his judicial excellence, including the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Award of Excellence, the Columbia College John Jay Award, and the Columbia University Medal of Excellence, among others.
Judge Greenaway is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he was the recipient of the Earl Warren Legal Scholarship and served as a member of the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review.
Judge Greenaway was born in London and moved to New York, growing up in Harlem and the Northeast Bronx. He is married to Veronica Blake-Greenaway and has a son, Joseph, and a daughter, Samantha.
Martin:
Martin, 53, grew up in Macon, Georgia. She graduated from Stetson University and the University of Georgia School of Law.
After graduating from law school, Judge Martin spent several years working in private practice as an associate at Martin & Snow in Macon. In 1984, she became an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of the Attorney General of Georgia, where she worked for ten years representing the state.
In 1994, Judge Martin joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Middle District of Georgia as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. In 1997, Judge Martin was elevated to Acting U.S. Attorney and she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as U.S. Attorney in 1998. As a federal prosecutor, Judge Martin served as the government's lead counsel in a variety of criminal matters, including drug conspiracy, firearms possession, and counterfeiting cases.
Since 2000, Judge Martin has served as a U.S. District Court Judge in the Northern District of Georgia.
Judge Martin has worked to help her community by serving on the Board of Directors for a Community College Foundation and working with Habitat for Humanity.
Judge Martin is married to Knox Dobbins and they reside in Atlanta.


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