Judge Claria Horn Boom ’94, one of a very small number of “swing” judges who presides in two federal districts, discussed her observations of how sentencing practices varied among federal districts in her talk at VLS Feb. 16, 2022.
Judge Boom was appointed to her seat on the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky, where she has served since April 2018, by President Donald Trump. Before her appointment to the federal bench, Judge Boom was a federal prosecutor for the Western District of Kentucky from 1998 to 2001 and then for the Eastern District of Kentucky in 2002. She was in private practice from 2002 to 2008 and a member at Frost Brown Todd based in Lexington, Kentucky, from 2006 to 2018.
She earned her undergraduate degree at Transylvania University before earning her law degree at Vanderbilt in 1994. She was a law clerk for Judge Judge Pierce Lively of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit after earning her J.D.