The United States District Court for the District of Delaware is pleased to announce its selection of Jennifer L. Hall to fill the new United States Magistrate Judge position recently created by the Judicial Conference of the United States. Ms. Hall’s appointment is subject to completion of an FBI background investigation, which the Court anticipates will be conducted over the next several months.
 

     Ms. Hall is currently the Chief of the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware. In her eight years as an AUSA, she has handled a wide variety of civil and criminal matters. Previously, Ms. Hall litigated patent cases as an associate in the Wilmington, Delaware office of Fish & Richardson P.C. Ms. Hall has also clerked for the Honorable Sharon Prost, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as well as the Honorable Kent A. Jordan of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
 

     Ms. Hall is a 2006 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Before law school, she earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Minnesota as well as an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University.
 

     Ms. Hall’s selection was the culmination of a process that included the screening of dozens of applications by a Merit Selection Panel as well as interviews by the Panel and the Court. The Court expresses its gratitude to the members of the Panel for their diligent and important service to the Court.

 

     The Court looks forward to welcoming Ms. Hall to the bench later this year.