Draft:Stacey D. Neumann

Stacey Diane Neumann (born 1978) 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 Maine.

Education
Neumann received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from James Madison University in 2000 and a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 2005.

Career
From 2005 to 2006, Neumann was a law clerk to Associate Justice John A. Dooley of the Vermont Supreme Court and from 2006 to 2007, she was a law clerk for Judge Peter W. Hall of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 2007 to 2009, she was a staff attorney at the Vermont Office of the Defender General in Chittenden County. From 2009 to 2013, Neumann served as a special assistant U.S. attorney and then an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maine. Since 2013, she has worked in private practice at Murray, Plumb & Murray in Portland, where her focus is on employment law ; she has been a partner with the firm since 2017. In 2023, she was named by the United States Sentencing Commission to the Practitioners Advisory Group.

Nomination to district court
On April 24, 2024, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Neumann to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine. On April 30, 2024, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Biden nominated Neumann to the seat being vacated by Judge Jon D. Levy, who subsequently assumed senior status on May 6, 2024. On May 22, 2024, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On July 11, 2024, her nomination was favorably reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by an 13–8 vote. Her nomination is pending before the United States Senate.