President Barack Obama announced his intention Thursday to nominate Assistant U.S. Attorney Rudolph Contreras and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronnie Abrams for two district court seats.
Contreras, who has been an Assistant U.S. Attorney since 1994, would serve on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, taking the seat now held by Judge Ricardo Urbina. He has served as chief of the Civil Division at the U.S. Attorney’s office in D.C., and before that, held the same position in the District of Delaware from 2003 to 2006.
Before joining the DOJ, Contreras spent three years as an associate at the law firm Jones Day.
His nomination was announced with Abrams’ nomination for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Abrams works now as special counsel for pro bono work at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. From 1998 to 2008, she served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where she was acting chief of the General Crimes Unit from 2004 to 2005 and chief of the unit from 2005 to 2007. She also led the office’s Criminal Division from 2007 to 2008.
