Andrew S. Hanen
| Andrew Scott Hanen | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas | |
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Assumed office May 10, 2002 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Filemon Vela, Sr. |
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| Born |
Andrew Scott Hanen December 10, 1953 Elgin, Illinois |
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Denison University B.A. Baylor Law School J.D. |
Andrew Scott Hanen (born December 10, 1953) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Hanen was born on December 10, 1953, in Elgin, Illinois, but was raised in Waco, Texas. He received a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from Denison University in 1975, majoring in economics and political science. He received his Juris Doctor from Baylor Law School in 1978, where he graduated first in his class. He was a briefing attorney to Joe Greenhill, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, from 1978 to 1979.
He was in private practice in Houston, Texas, from 1979 to 2002. In 1992, Hanen was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to be a United States District Judge, but the nomination lapsed.
On January 23, 2002, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas vacated by Filemon Vela, Sr. Hanen was confirmed by a 97-0 vote of the United States Senate on May 9, 2002, and received his commission on May 10, 2002. Hanen maintains chambers in Brownsville, Texas.
During sentencing of a convicted child smuggler in December 2013, Hanen sharply rebuked the United States Department of Homeland Security for not prosecuting the child's mother. Hanen wrote, "DHS should cease telling the citizens of the United States that it is enforcing our border security laws because it is not. Even worse, it is helping those who violate these laws."
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