[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 40 (Thursday, March 2, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S632]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               CONFIRMATION OF JONATHAN JAMES CANADA GREY

 Mr. DURBIN. Madam President, today the Senate confirmed Judge 
Jonathan Grey to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of 
Michigan.
  Born in Poplarville, MS, Judge Grey attended Morehouse College and 
the Georgetown University Law Center before serving as a law clerk to 
both Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth 
Circuit and Judge W. Louis Sands of the U.S. District Court for the 
Middle District of Georgia. He then began his career in private 
practice as an associate at Seyfarth Shaw, LLC, a role in which he 
focused on labor and employment matters in Federal, State, and local 
courts, as well as before administrative agencies. As an Assistant 
United States Attorney for both the Southern District of Ohio and the 
Eastern District of Michigan, Judge Grey briefed and argued dozens of 
dispositive and nondispositive motions and also led several substantial 
investigations in cases that spanned multiple States and countries. In 
2021, Judge Grey was appointed to serve as a magistrate judge for the 
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, where he has 
written opinions in approximately 40 cases.
  The American Bar Association rated Judge Grey as unanimously ``well 
qualified,'' and he enjoys the strong support of Senators Stabenow and 
Peters. Judge Grey's experience as both a litigator and a jurist in the 
Eastern District of Michigan demonstrates his deep knowledge of the 
district to which he has been nominated to serve, and he will make an 
outstanding addition to the Federal bench. I was glad to see him 
confirmed.

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