Draft:Laura Provinzino

Laura Margarete Provinzino (born 1975) is an American lawyer who is a nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota.

Education
Provinzino graduated from St. Cloud Technical High School. She received a Bachelor of Arts with honors, from Lewis and Clark College in 1998 and Oxford University, as a Rhodes Scholar, in 2000. She received a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2002.

Career
Provinzino served as a law clerk to the Judge Diana E. Murphy of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from 2003 to 2004. Following her clerkship, she worked as an associate at Robins Kaplan LLP from 2006 to 2010 in Minneapolis, where she focused on medical malpractice and product liability cases. She has served as an assistant United States attorney since 2010.

In 2023, Provinzino was one of three prosecutors who tried the case against Anton Lazzaro, who was charged with the human trafficking of several teenage girls. Lazzaro was sentenced to 21 years in federal prison.

Nomination to district court
On June 12, 2024, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Provinzino to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. On June 13, 2024, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Provinzino to the seat vacated by Judge Wilhelmina Wright, who assumed senior status on February 15, 2024. On July 10, 2024, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Her nomination is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.