Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong

Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong (née Maame Abena Famanyame Ewusi-Mensah; born 1976) is an American attorney and jurist serving as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court. She is a nominee to serve as a judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong
Judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court
Assumed office
November 17, 2015
Appointed byJerry Brown
Preceded byThomas R. White
Personal details
Born
Maame Abena Famanyame Ewusi-Mensah[1]

1976 (age 44–45)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (AB)
Yale University (JD)

Early life and education

Frimpong was born in 1976 in Los Angeles[1] and raised in Los Angeles County, California to Kwaku Ewusi-Mensah and Theodora Ewusi-Mensah, immigrants from Ghana.[2][3] Frimpong earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1997 and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2001.[4]

Career

From 2001 to 2002, Frimpong served as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit She then worked as an associate at Morrison & Foerster from 2002 to 2007. From 2007 to 2015, she served in various positions in the United States Department of Justice, including in the Civil Division. In 2015, she was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to serve as a judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Thomas R. White.[5][6]

Nomination to district court

On September 8, 2021, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Frimpong to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. On September 20, 2021, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Frimpong to the seat vacated by Judge Christina A. Snyder, who took senior status on November 23, 2016.[7] On October 20, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[8] On December 2, 2021, her nomination was favorably reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote.[9] Her nomination is pending before the full United States Senate.

References
  1. "Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  2. "Governor Brown Appoints Seven to Los Angeles County Superior Court | Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr". www.ca.gov. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  3. https://nbltop100.org/ewusi-mensah-frimpong-top-ghanaian-american-legal-brain-tasked-to-solve-ghanas-power-crisis/
  4. "Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong for Los Angeles County Superior Court in California". Trellis. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  5. "Brown Names 25 Judges, Seven in Los Angeles". www.metnews.com. November 18, 2015. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
  6. "President Biden Names Seventh Round of Judicial Nominees". The White House. 2021-09-08. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  7. "Nominations and Withdrawal Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. September 20, 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  8. "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. October 20, 2021.
  9. "Results of Executive Business Meeting – December 2, 2021" (PDF). United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Retrieved December 3, 2021.




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