Araceli Martínez-Olguín

Araceli Martínez-Olguín (born 1977) is a Mexican-American lawyer from California who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Education

Martínez-Olguín received a Bachelor of Arts from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 1999 and a Juris Doctor from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 2004. She has also worked at the ACLU and at the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center. Martínez-Olguín was a member of the American Constitution Society Bay Area Lawyer Chapter's board of directors from 2015 to 2022.

Federal judicial service

On July 29, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Martínez-Olguín to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. On September 21, 2022, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On December 1, 2022, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote. On January 3, 2023, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate; she was renominated later the same day. On February 2, 2023, her nomination was reported out of committee by an 11–9 vote. On February 28, 2023, the Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 48–47 vote. Later that day, her nomination was confirmed by a 49–48 vote, with the Vice President Kamala Harris voting in the affirmative. She received her judicial commission on March 3, 2023. She is the second Latina to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.