Public Counsel President Mónica Ramírez Almadani Confirmed as Judge for Central District of California

Almadani becomes the 152nd judge confirmed by the Senate during the Biden administration.

The U.S. Senate today held a recorded vote to confirm one individual as an Article III federal judge. With this confirmation, 152 judges nominated by President Joe Biden have now been confirmed by the Senate. With today’s action, 115 of Biden’s judicial nominees have been approved for service on federal district courts.

In a 51-44 vote, Mónica Ramírez Almadani was confirmed as a Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She is Biden’s eighth confirmation to the 28-person court, with one additional vacancy awaiting a nominee by Biden.

Almadani assumes the Los Angeles-based seat previously held by John Kronstadt, who took senior status in April 2022. A nominee of President Barack Obama, Kronstadt served on the court from 2011 to 2022. Almadani was nominated to this seat on the federal judiciary by Biden in January 2023.

From 2005 to 2009, Almadani worked as staff attorney at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project in San Francisco. She joined the Department of Justice in 2009, serving as counsel to then-Assistant Secretary Tom Perez and later as Deputy Chief of Staff to then-Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole.

From 2012 to 2015, Almadani worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. From 2015 to 2017, she served as Special Assistant Attorney General in the California Department of Justice and Senior Advisor to then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris. Since 2021, she has been the President of the nonprofit Public Counsel.