Another New SoCal 9th Circuit Judge!

Following the confirmation of Kenneth Kiyul Lee (who is expected to maintain chambers in Pasadena, and who is America's first Article III judge to be born in the Republic of Korea), the Senate also confirmed LA appellate lawyer Daniel P. Collins to the 9th Circuit.

Judge Collins, who is expected to maintain chambers in Pasadena, California, was nominated to the court on February 6, 2019. After appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 13, 2019, his nomination was reported to the Senate floor on April 4, 2019. He fills a judgeship vacant since December 11, 2015, when Judge Harry Pregerson of Woodland Hills, California, passed away.
Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge Collins had been a partner at the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, in Los Angeles since 2003 and from 1998 to 2001. Before that, he was an associate at the firm from 1996 to 1997. Judge Collins was an associate deputy attorney general in the Office of the Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., from 2001 to 2003. He served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California in Los Angeles from 1992 to 1996. He clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1991 to 1992 and was an attorney adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel at the DOJ in Washington from 1989 to 1991.

Judge Collins received his J.D., with distinction and Order of the Coif, in 1988 from Stanford Law School, where he was a member and note editor of the Stanford Law Review from 1986 to 1988. He received his A.B., summa cum laude, from Harvard College in 1985. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1988 to 1989.