Who is Aileen Cannon?

She is a U.S. district court judge know mostly for agreeing that a special master must be appointed to review the files taken from Mar-a-Lago. 

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Aileen Mercedes Cannon (born 1981)[1] is a Colombian-born American lawyer and jurist who serves as a U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. She was nominated by President Donald Trump and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2020.Aileen Mercedes Cannon was born in 1981 in Cali, Colombia. Her mother had fled Cuba under Fidel Castro.[2] She attended Ransom Everglades School, a private high school in Miami, Florida.[3]

After graduating from Duke University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts, Cannon worked as a paralegal for the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division from 2003 to 2005. She then attended the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an articles editor for the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. She graduated in 2007 with a Juris Doctor magna cum laude and Order of the Coif membership.[1][4]

After law school, Cannon was a summer associate at the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (now Gibson Dunn) in its Washington, D.C. office. From 2008 to 2009, she was a law clerk to judge Steven Colloton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She then returned to Gibson Dunn from 2009 to 2012.

From 2013 until her judicial appointment in 2020, Cannon was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.[4] Cannon worked in the district's major crimes section from 2013 to 2015, then in its appellate section from 2015 to 2020.[1]

Cannon has been a member of the Federalist Society since 2005.[1]

On April 29, 2020, Trump announced his intent to nominate Cannon to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.[4] She was nominated to the seat vacated by judge Kenneth Marra, who assumed senior status on August 1, 2017. On May 21, 2020, her nomination was sent to the United States Senate.[5] The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on her nomination on July 29, 2020.[6] On September 17, 2020, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 16–6 vote.[7] The Senate voted 56–21 to confirm her nomination on November 12, 2020.[8] She received her judicial commission on November 13, 2020.