In the 12th installment in a series of episodes of the State Bar of Texas Podcast recorded from the State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting 2024, State Bar of Texas Podcast host Rocky Dhir welcomes Judge Irma Carrillo Ramirez to discuss highlights from her keynote address and her passion for improving representation within the legal world. Dhir gets the details on Ramirez’s landmark “firsts” as a Latina with a notably successful legal career. She talks about her childhood as a daughter of immigrants, her journey as a lawyer, and her nomination and confirmation as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Irma Carrillo Ramirez was sworn in as judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit on December 11, 2023. She had previously served as a United States magistrate judge for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, since 2002. Prior to her judicial service, she was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, where she spent time in both the criminal and civil divisions, and an associate attorney in the general commercial litigation section of the law firm of Locke Purnell Rain Harrell LLP.
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