{{Short description|American judge (born 1967)}} {{Infobox judge | name = Michael Shea | image = Michael Shea (Judge).jpg | office = Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut | term_start = November 1, 2022 | term_end = | predecessor = Stefan R. Underhill | successor = | office1 = Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut | appointer1 = Barack Obama | term_start1 = December 7, 2012 | term_end1 = | predecessor1 = Christopher F. Droney | successor1 = | birth_name = Michael Peter Shea | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|4|17}} | birth_place = Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | education = Amherst College (BA)<br>Yale University (JD) }} '''Michael Peter Shea'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/MichaelShea-PublicQuestionnaire.pdf|title=Questionnaire for Judicial Nominees|work=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|date=March 28, 2012}}</ref> (born April 17, 1967)<ref>[http://staging.ctbar.org/docs/default-source/education/materials/2018-2019-cle-materials/edu190213-class-action-final-materials.pdf Connecticut Bar Association: The Anatomy of a Class Action]</ref> is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
==Biography==
Born in April 1967 in Hartford, Connecticut, Shea received his Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in 1989 from Amherst College. He received his Juris Doctor in 1993 from Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk to United States Circuit Judge James L. Buckley of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1993 to 1994. He worked at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP as an associate and then joined Day Pitney as an associate in 1998 and became a partner in that firm in 2003. At Day Pitney, he chaired the firm's Appellate Practice Group, while also representing individuals, non-profits and corporations in civil and criminal cases. In private practice, he argued twenty civil and criminal appeals in state and federal courts.<ref name="Whitehouse">{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/02/president-obama-nominates-two-serve-us-district-court|work=whitehouse.gov|title=President Obama Nominates Two to Serve on the US District Court|via=National Archives|date=2 February 2012}}</ref><ref name="fjc.gov">{{FJC Bio|nid=1394061}}</ref>
==Federal judicial service==
On February 2, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Shea to be United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.<ref name="Whitehouse" /> He was nominated to a seat vacated by Judge Christopher F. Droney, who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on December 1, 2011. He received a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 28, 2012 and his nomination was reported to the floor on April 26, 2012, by a 15–3 vote, with Senators Lee, Coburn and Cornyn casting the no votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/ExecutiveBusinessMeetingResults-04-26-2012.pdf|title=Results of Executive Business Meeting - April 26, 2012|publisher=United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|accessdate=November 1, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.courant.com/2012-04-26/news/hc-shea-district-court-0427-20120426_1_obama-nominees-senate-confirmation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723073632/http://articles.courant.com/2012-04-26/news/hc-shea-district-court-0427-20120426_1_obama-nominees-senate-confirmation|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 23, 2015|title=Hartford Lawyer Michael P. Shea's Nomination To U.S. District Court Advances In Senate|publisher=}}</ref> The Senate confirmed his nomination on December 5, 2012, by a 72–23 vote.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1122/vote_112_2_00222.htm|title=On the Nomination (Confirmation Michael P. Shea, of Connecticut, to be U.S. District Judge)|date=December 5, 2012|website=United States Senate|access-date=November 1, 2022}}</ref> He received his commission on December 7, 2012. He became chief judge on November 1, 2022.<ref name="fjc.gov"/>
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==External links== *{{FJC Bio|nid=1394061}} *{{Ballotpedia|Michael_Shea|Michael Shea}}
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