Sarah Geraghty

On September 30, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Geraghty to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. President Biden nominated Geraghty to the seat vacated by Judge Amy Totenberg, who assumed senior status on April 3, 2021.^[3] On December 1, 2021, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.^[4] On January 3, 2022, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate;^[5] she was later renominated the same day.^[6] On January 20, 2022, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 12–10 vote.^[7] On March 16, 2022, the Senate invoked cloture on her nomination by a 49–46 vote.^[8] On March 31, 2022, her nomination was confirmed by a 52–48 vote.^[9] She received her judicial commission on April 8, 2022.^[10]

On August 21, 2023, she blocked a Georgia law banning hormone therapy for transgender minors,^[11][12] but the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit overturned her ruling, which prompted her to allow the ban to be enforced on September 5, 2023.^[13][14]

• Sarah Geraghty at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.