Tiffany M. Cartwright

Tiffany Mae Cartwright (born 1985) is an American civil rights attorney who is the nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Early life and education
Cartwright was born in Lansing, Michigan, and grew up in Kitsap County. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in 2007 and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 2010, where she was a member of the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.
Career
From 2010 to 2011, Cartwright served as a law clerk to Judge Dana Fabe on the Alaska Supreme Court and later for Betty Binns Fletcher on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. During law school, Cartwright also worked at the federal public defender office in Seattle and at the United States Department of Justice Public Integrity Unit. From 2012 to 2014, she was an associate at Jenner & Block. In 2014, she joined the civil rights law firm MacDonald Hoague & Bayless; where she focuses on civil rights and employment litigation, including cases on police misconduct, gender discrimination and sexual harassment.
In 2021, Cartwright served as pro bono Washington state counsel for the Campaign Legal Center in Aguilar v. Yakima County, a case litigated under the Washington Voting Rights Act. She has also served as lead or co-counsel in notable cases, including Dunlap v. King County where a family of a teen shot in the back of the head by King County sheriff's deputies was awarded a $2.25 million settlement. Another case was West v. City of Montesano where a man was shot in his home by police while experiencing a mental health crisis, his family was ultimately awarded a $3 million settlement. and was co-editor in chief of Stanford Law & Policy Review in 2009 and 2010.
She was selected to Rising Stars by Washington Super Lawyers for 2019 through 2021. Her nomination was supported by senator Patty Murray of Washington. On May 25, 2022, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On June 16, 2022, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 12-10 vote. Her nomination is pending before the full United States Senate. If confirmed, Cartwright would be the second youngest federal judge in the country.
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