Bruce Howe Hendricks
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
Assumed office
June 5, 2014
Appointed byBarack Obama
Preceded byMargaret B. Seymour
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
In office
2002 – June 5, 2014
Personal details
Pronunciation/bruːsi/
Born
Bruce McCaw Howe

1957 (age 66–67)
Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
SpouseTed Hendricks[1]
Children2
EducationCollege of Charleston (BS)
University of South Carolina (JD)

Bruce McCaw Howe Hendricks /bruːsi/ (born 1957) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina and former United States magistrate judge of the same court.

Biography

Hendricks was born Bruce McCaw Howe in 1957 in Charleston, South Carolina.[2] Hendricks attended Sweet Briar College where she played basketball.[3] Later she transferred to the College of Charleston and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1983. She received a Juris Doctor in 1990 from the University of South Carolina School of Law. From 1991 to 2002, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Charleston, South Carolina, where she prosecuted a wide array of criminal cases before both the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina and on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. From 2002 to 2014, she served as a United States magistrate judge, in Greenville from 2002 to 2010 and in Charleston from 2010 to 2014. As part of her duties, she presided over the first drug court program in the District of South Carolina.[4][5]

Federal judicial service

On June 26, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Hendricks to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, to the seat vacated by Judge Margaret B. Seymour, who assumed senior status on January 16, 2013.[4] She received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 11, 2014. Her nomination was reported out of committee by a 16–2 vote on March 6, 2014.[6] On May 22, 2014, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on the nomination. On June 3, 2014, the United States Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 59–35 vote.[7] On June 4, 2014, her nomination was confirmed by a 95–0 vote.[8] She received her judicial commission on June 5, 2014.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "'My whole life I wanted to be just like my father'". 3 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Senate Judiciary Committee Nomination Questionnaire" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
  3. ↑ http://www.charlestoncountybar.org/Archived-Newsletters/Charleston-Bar-Newsletter-15-Fall-2011.pdf
  4. 1 2 "President Obama Nominates Three to Serve on the United States District Court". whitehouse.gov. 26 June 2013 – via National Archives.
  5. 1 2 Bruce Howe Hendricks at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
  6. ↑ "Results of Executive Business Meeting - March 6, 2014" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. United States Senate. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
  7. ↑ "On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Bruce Hendricks, of South Carolina, to be U.S. District Judge)". United States Senate. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  8. ↑ "On the Nomination (Confirmation Bruce Howe Hendricks to be U.S. District Judge for the District of South Carolina)". United States Senate. Retrieved 4 June 2014.
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