Thursday, April 28, 2022

Lara Ewens Montecalvo nominated for 1st Circuit Judgeship (5/28/22)

President Biden nominated Lara Ewens Montecalvo to be a judge on the First Circuit Court of Appeals.  See White House announcement here.  The portion of the announcement applicable to here is (DOJ Tax portion bold-faced by JAT):

Lara E. Montecalvo is the Public Defender of Rhode Island, a role she has held since 2020. Ms. Montecalvo previously served as an assistant public defender in the Rhode Island Public Defender’s Office from 2004 to 2020. She held several roles in that office, including as Chief of the Appellate Division from 2014 to 2020, an appellate attorney from 2010 to 2014, and a trial attorney from 2004 to 2010. Ms. Montecalvo was a trial attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 2000 to 2004. Ms. Montecalvo received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Boston College Law School in 2000 and her B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1996.

 She was in the Civil Northern section.

Her Wikipedia page is here.

Her Vetting Room page is here.