Steven Daniel Grimberg (born March 11, 1974) is a

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of the

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Education

Grimberg earned his

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, with honors, from the

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, and his

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, with distinction, from

Emory University School of Law Emory University School of Law is the law school of Emory University and is part of the University's main campus in Druid Hills, Atlanta, Georgia. It was founded in 1916 and was the first law school in Georgia to be granted membership in the Am ...

Legal and academic career

He prosecuted white collar crimes as an

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and Deputy Chief of the Economic Crimes Section in the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia and as a Trial Attorney in the Department of Justice's Tax Division. From 2018 to 2019 he served as the managing director and General Counsel of Nardello & Co., where he headed the global investigation firm's

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, office. Grimberg is an adjunct professor at Emory University School of Law, where he teaches courses on criminal procedure, criminal law, and trial advocacy.

Federal judicial service

On April 2, 2019, President

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announced his intent to nominate Grimberg to serve as a

for the

. On April 4, 2019, his nomination was sent to the Senate. President Trump nominated Grimberg to the seat vacated by Judge

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, who assumed

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on December 1, 2018. On April 30, 2019, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On June 13, 2019, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 17–5 vote. On July 30, 2019, the

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invoked

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on his nomination by a 72–16 vote. On September 11, 2019, his nomination was confirmed by a 75–18 vote. He received his judicial commission on September 13, 2019. On November 19, 2020, Grimberg threw out a lawsuit brought by a Trump supporter concerning the

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. Grimberg found that the plaintiff asserting fraud and improprieties in the election lacked standing to sue, waited too long after the election to file their case, and otherwise demonstrated "no basis in fact or in law" for blocking certification of Joe Biden's narrow victory over Trump in Georgia. On August 5, 2022, Grimberg ruled that holding statewide elections for a Georgia utility regulatory body discriminates against Black voters and delayed the elections scheduled for November to a later date.

Memberships

He has been a member of the

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from 1997 to 2004 and again since 2015. He was a member of the

Republican Jewish Coalition The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), formerly the National Jewish Coalition, founded in 1985, is a political group in the United States that supports Jewish Republicans. The organization has more than 47 chapters throughout the United States. ...

from 2015 to 2016.

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