After earning her law degree in 1987, Tanya Sue Chutkan worked at a Washington, D.C., law firm that handled civil litigation. She later became a public defender, representing defendants charged with criminal offenses, and was promoted to lead attorney for sexual-offense cases and then homicide cases. She returned to private civil litigation in 2002. More than a decade later, she applied for an open federal judgeship and was nominated and confirmed in 2014.
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