Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong: Ghanaian Nominated By Joe Biden As District Court Of California Judge

Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Ghanaian born American, has been nominated as a judge by the US President, Joe Biden to the US District Court for the Central District of California.

Born to Kwaku Ewusi-Mensah and Theodora Ewusi-Mensah both immigrants from Ghana, Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong was born and raised in Los Angeles County, California in 1975.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1997. According to trellis.law, after graduating from Harvard, Frimpong worked as a high school teacher at a public school in Ghana.

After she returned to the United States, she attended Yale Law School where she earned her JD in 2001.

If confirmed, Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong will hold a seat on the US District Court for the Central District of California as a lifetime appointment in the upper echelons of the US judiciary.

She would also become the only black woman serving in any of California’s four Federal District Courts and one of only eight across the whole of the United States.

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Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong: Nominee for the United States District Court for the Central District of California

Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong has served as a judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court since 2016.

From 2015 to 2016, she served as Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

From 2007 to 2015, Judge Frimpong worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, serving in various positions, including as Counselor to the Attorney General, Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division’s Consumer Protection Branch, and other positions.

Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Judge Frimpong worked as an associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP in San Francisco from 2002 to 2007.

Judge Frimpong served as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2001 to 2002.

Judge Frimpong received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2001 and her A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard University in 1997.

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