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Michael W. Fitzgerald

Michael Walter Fitzgerald (born July 11, 1959) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.[1]

For other people named Michael Fitzgerald, see Michael Fitzgerald (disambiguation).

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Michael Walter Fitzgerald

(1959-07-11) July 11, 1959
Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Harvard College (AB)
University of California, Berkeley (JD)

Early life and education[edit]

Fitzgerald was born in Los Angeles, California, on July 11, 1959.[2] He earned an Artium Baccalaureus from Harvard College in 1981 and a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 1985.[3] From 1985 to 1986, Fitzgerald served as a law clerk for Judge Irving Kaufman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.[4][5]

Personal[edit]

Fitzgerald is openly gay and was the first openly LGBT person to be appointed to the federal bench in California.[11]

List of LGBT jurists in the United States

at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

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