Amy Totenberg
| Amy Mil Totenberg | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia | |
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Assumed office March 1, 2011 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Jack Tarpley Camp Jr. |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
December 29, 1950 New York City, New York |
| Education |
Harvard University A.B. Harvard Law School J.D. |
Amy Mil Totenberg (born December 29, 1950) is a United States District Judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. She previously had been in private practice in Atlanta and also formerly served as a Special Master for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland.
Born in New York, New York, she is the daughter of Melanie (Shroder) and Polish-born violinist Roman Totenberg. Totenberg earned an Artium Baccalaureus, magna cum laude, in 1974 from Harvard-Radcliffe College and a Juris Doctor in 1977 from Harvard Law School.
Upon graduating from Harvard-Radcliffe, Totenberg worked as a summer intern at the law firm of James M. Haviland in Charleston, West Virginia. In 1975 she was a legal assistant for Education/Instrucción in Roxbury, Massachusetts and held this position into 1977. After graduating from law school, she served as a partner for The Law Project in Atlanta from 1977 until 1982 and served as a sole legal practitioner in Atlanta from 1982 until 1994. Between 1988 and 1993, Totenberg was a part-time for the city of Atlanta as a pro hac vice Municipal Court Judge. From 1994 until 1998, Totenberg served as the first-ever general counsel for Atlanta's school system. From 1998 until becoming a federal judge in 2011, Totenberg had served as a sole legal practitioner and arbitrator in Atlanta, working part-time as a special master and court monitor for several United States district courts. She also worked from 2004 until 2007 as an adjunct professor at the Emory University School of Law.
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