WASHINGTON, DC Today, President Barack Obama nominated Brenda K. Sannes to serve on the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.

I am proud to nominate Brenda K. Sannes to serve on the United States District Court bench, said President Obama. She has a long and distinguished record of service, and I am confident she will serve on the federal bench with distinction.

Brenda K. Sannes: Nominee for the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York

Brenda K. Sannes has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of New York since 1995 and has served as the Chief of the Appellate Section since 2005. Previously, she was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California from 1988 to 1994 and returned to serve a two-year detail to that office from 2003 to 2005. From 1984 to 1988, Sannes worked at the law firm of Wyman, Bautzer, Christensen, Kuchel Silbert in Los Angeles. She began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Jerome Farris of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1983 to 1984. Sannes received her J.D. in 1983 from the University of Wisconsin Law School and her B.A. magna cum laude in 1980 from Carleton College.