Catherine Blake
| Catherine Blake | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the District of Maryland | |
| Title: | Judge |
| Position: | Seat #9 |
| Station: | Baltimore, MD |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Bill Clinton |
| Active: | 08/14/1995 - Present |
| Preceded by: | John Hargrove |
| Past post: | District of Maryland, Magistrate Judge |
| Past term: | 1987 - 1995 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1950 |
| Home State: | Boston, MA |
| Bachelors: | Harvard-Radcliffe College, A.B., 1972 |
| Law School: | Harvard Law, J.D., 1975 |
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Catherine C. Blake is an Article III federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. She joined the court in 1995 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton.
Early life and education
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Blake graduated from Radcliffe College with her Bachelor's Degree in 1972 and from Harvard Law School with her Juris Doctor degree in 1975.
Professional career
Blake entered private practice in the State of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1977 before moving to Maryland where she joined the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland. From 1977 to 1983 Blake was an Assistant U.S. Attorney before becoming First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland from 1983 to 1985 and again from 1986-1987. From 1985 to 1986, Blake served as the Court appointed Chief U.S. District Attorney for the District of Maryland. [1]
Judicial career
Magistrate, District of Maryland
In 1987, Blake was appointed to an eight-year term as a Federal Magistrate Judge for the District of Maryland.
District of Maryland
Blake was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland by President Bill Clinton on May 4, 1995 to a seat vacated by John Hargrove. Blake was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 11, 1995 on a Senate vote and received commission on August 14, 1995.[2]
Notable cases
Alan Fabian case
| United States District Court for the District of Maryland *United States of America v. Alan Brian Fabian Civil No. CCB-09-2810 Criminal No. CCB-07-0355 |
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| In 2011, Judge Blake ruled that the sentence and charges against Alan Fabian would stand, denying his motion. Two years earlier, Fabian was convicted of mail fraud and filing a fake tax return, crimes to which he confessed. As a result, he was sentenced to nine years in prison and $40 million restitution. Fabian, an entrepreneur and political fundraiser, challenged the legality of the sentence for thirteen reasons. Because of the plea deal agreed to by Fabian and the exhaustive confirmations of that deal in the first trial, Blake found no reason to re-hear the case. [3] |
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| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: John Hargrove |
District of Maryland 1995–Current Seat #9 |
Succeeded by: NA |
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| 1993 |
Adams • Ambrose • Barnes • Brinkema • Bucklew • Chasanow • Coffman • Daughtrey • Ferguson • Ginsburg • Hagen • Jackson • Lancaster • Leval • Lindsay • Messitte • Michael • Piersol • Saris • Schwartz • Seybert • Shanahan • Shaw • Stearns • Trager • Vazquez • Wilken • Wilson | ||
| 1994 |
Baer • Barkett • Batts • Beaty • Benavides • Bennett • Berrigan • Biery • Block • Borman • Breyer • Briones • Bryson • Bucklo • Burgess • Burrage • Cabranes • Calabresi • Carr • Casellas • Castillo • Chatigny • Chin • Cindrich • Coar • Collins • Cooper • Cote • Currie • Davis • Dominguez • Downes • Duval • Friedman • Furgeson • Garcia • Gertner • Gettleman • Gillmor • Gilmore • Gleeson • Haggerty • Hamilton • Hannah • Hawkins • Henry • Holmes • Hood • Hull • Hurley • Jack • Jones • Jones • Kaplan • Katz • Kern • Kessler • Koeltl • Lisi • Manning • McKee • McLaughlin • Melancon • Miles-LaGrange • Moore • Motz • Murphy • O'Malley • O'Meara • Oliver • Paez • B. Parker • F. Parker • R. Parker • Perry • Ponsor • Pooler • Porteous • Rendell • Riley • Robertson • Rogers • Ross • Russell • Sands • Sarokin • Scheindlin • Silver • Squatrito • Stewart • Sullivan • Tatel • Thompson • Timlin • Urbina • Vanaskie • Vance • Walls • Wells • Williams | ||
| 1995 |
Arterton • Atlas • Black • Blake • Briscoe • Tena Campbell • Todd Campbell • Chesney • Cole • Collier • Daniel • Davis • Dennis • Dlott • Donald • Duffy • Economus • Evans • Fallon • Folsom • Gaughan • Goodwin • Heartfield • Hunt • Illston • Jones • King • Kornmann • Lawson • Lenard • Lucero • Lynch • McKinley • Moody • Moore • Moskowitz • Murphy • Murtha • Nugent • O'Toole • Orlofsky • Pogue • Sessions • C. Smith • O. Smith • Stein • Thornburg • Tunheim • Wallach • Wardlaw • Webber • Whaley • Winmill • Wood | ||
| 1996 |
Broadwater • Clevert • Fenner • Gershon • Gottschall • Greenaway • Hinkle • Jones • Kahn • Laughrey • Lemmon • Marten • Miller • Molloy • Montgomery • Pregerson • Rakoff • Sargus • Tashima • Thomas • Zapata | ||
| 1997 |
Adelman • Bataillon • Breyer • Caputo • Casey • Chambers • Clay • Damrell • Droney • Friedman • Gajarsa • Garland • Gilman • Gold • Gwin • Hall • Hayden • Hull • Ishii • Jenkins • Kauffman • Kennedy • Kimball • Kollar-Kotelly • Lazzara • Marbley • Marcus • Middlebrooks • Miller • Moon • Pratt • Rendell • Sippel • Siragusa • Snyder • Thrash | ||
| 1998 |
Aiken • Barbier • Barzilay • Berman • Buttram • Carter • Collins • Dawson • Dimitrouleas • Fletcher • Fogel • Frank • Graber • Hellerstein • Herndon • James • Johnson • Kane • Kelly • G. King • R. King • Lasnik • Lee • Lemelle • Lindsay • Lipez • Manella • Matz • McCuskey • McKeown • McMahon • Mickle • Mollway • Mordue • Moreno • Morrow • Munley • Murphy • Pallmeyer • Pauley • Polster • Pooler • Rawlinson • Ridgway • R. Roberts • V. Roberts • Sack • Scott • Seitz • Seymour • Shea • Silverman • Sleet • Sotomayor • Steeh • Story • Straub • Tagle • Tarnow • Trauger • Traxler • Tyson • Wardlaw • Whelan • Young | ||
| 1999 |
Alsup • Barry • Brown • Buchwald • Cooper • Eaton • Ellison • Feess • Fisher • Gould • Guzman • Haynes • Hibbler • Hochberg • Hurd • Huvelle • Jordan • Katzmann • Kennelly • Linn • Lorenz • Lynn • Marrero • Murguia • Pannell • Pechman • Pepper • Phillips • Schreier • Stewart • Underhill • Ward • Williams • Wilson | ||
| 2000 |
Ambro • Antoon • Battani • Berzon • Bolton • Brady • Bye • Cavanaugh • Daniels • Darrah • Dawson • Dyk • Fuentes • Garaufis • Garcia-Gregory • Gregory • Hamilton • Huck • Hunt • Lawson • Lefkow • Lynch • Martin • McLaughlin • Moody • Murguia • Paez • Pisano • Presnell • Rawlinson • Reagan • Schiller • Singal • Steele • Surrick • Swain • Tallman • Teilborg • Tucker • Whittemore | ||
