Andrew G. Schopler

Education

Schopler received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1994 and he received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 1997.

Career

Schopler was a solo practitioner in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, Schopler became an assistant public defender for district 15B in North Carolina. He returned to private practice that same year. Schopler was named to the North Carolina Capital Roster for capital murder cases.

From 1998 to 2004, he worked at Rudolf and Maher in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From 2004 to 2016, he was an assistant United States attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California. In 2018, he deployed to Afghanistan as part of his duties as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) officer for Special Operations Command North (SOCNORTH), a Green Beret unit.

On July 14, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Schopler to serve as a United States District Judge of the same court. President Biden nominated Schopler to the seat vacated by Judge Larry Alan Burns, who assumed senior status on January 22, 2021. On December 13, 2022, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On January 3, 2023, his nomination was returned to the president under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate. He was renominated on January 23, 2023. On February 9, 2023, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 15–6 vote. On March 7, 2023, the Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 57–39 vote. His nomination was confirmed later that day by a 56–39 vote. He received his judicial commission on March 10, 2023.