Allison Dale Burroughs L'88

Judge Allison Dale Burroughs was born in 1961 in Boston, Massachusetts and received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Middlebury College. She received a Juris Doctor in 1988 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and began her legal career as a law clerk for Judge Norma L. Shapiro L'51 of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1988 to 1989. She served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1989 to 1995 and in the District of Massachusetts from 1995 to 2005. From 2005 to 2014 she was a partner at Nutter McClennen & Fish where she represented individuals and corporations in criminal and civil proceedings primarily before federal courts.

On July 31, 2014, President Obama nominated Burroughs to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, to the seat vacated by Judge Rya W. Zobel, who took senior status on April 1, 2014. She received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on September 17, 2014. Judge Burroughs is most notable for her order putting a hold on President Donald Trump's travel ban in January 2017 (Executive Order 13769), and as the judge who presided over United States v. Salemme, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University, and United States v. Babich.

Biography for Judge Allison Dale Burroughs was taken from Wikipedia.org.