Elizabeth K. Dillon

Elizabeth Dillon
Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
Assumed office
December 19, 2014
Appointed by Barack Obama
Preceded by Samuel Wilson
Personal details
Born Elizabeth Kay Hillman
1960 (age 5556)
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Residence Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.
Alma mater Lenoir-Rhyne University
Wake Forest University

Elizabeth Kay Dillon (born 1960) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.

Biography

Dillon received a Artium Baccalaureus degree, magna cum laude, in 1983 from Lenoir-Rhyne College. She received a Juris Doctor in 1986 from Wake Forest University School of Law. She began her legal career at Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, PLC, from 1986 to 1998. From 1999 to 2000, she was a shareholder at Guynn & Dillon, PC, a predecessor to her current law firm. From 2000 to 2003, she worked as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Roanoke. From 2003 to 2014, she had been a shareholder at Guynn, Memmer & Dillon, PC, where she handled both trial and appellate matters in Federal and State courts.[1]

Federal judicial service

On September 18, 2014, President Obama nominated Dillon to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, to the seat vacated by Judge Samuel Grayson Wilson, who retired on July 31, 2014.[2] She received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on November 13, 2014.[3] On December 11, 2014 her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.[4] On Saturday, December 13, 2014 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination. On December 16, 2014, Reid withdrew his cloture motion on Dillon's nomination, and the Senate proceeded to vote to confirm Dillon in a voice vote. She received her federal judicial commission on December 19, 2014.[5]

References

Legal offices
Preceded by
Samuel Wilson
Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
2014–present
Incumbent
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