Clare E. Connors

Clare Elizabeth Connors (born May 1974) is a Hawaii attorney in private practice and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.

Biography

Connors received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in 1996 from Yale College. She received a Juris Doctor in 2002 from Harvard Law School. She began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge David Alan Ezra of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, from 2002 to 2003. From 2003 to 2004, she served as a Trial Attorney in the Tax Division of the United States Department of Justice and also served on detail as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. From 2004 to 2011, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Hawaii. Since 2011, she has been an attorney at the law firm of Davis Levin Livingston,^[1] in Honolulu, Hawaii, where her practice focuses on civil litigation.^[2]

Nomination to district court

On September 8, 2015, President Obama nominated Connors to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, to the seat vacated by Judge Susan Oki Mollway, who took senior status on November 6, 2015.^[3] She received a hearing on her nomination on January 27, 2016.^[4] On April 14, 2016 her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.^[5] Her nomination is now pending before the full Senate.

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