Who appointed Ellen Segal Huvelle?

President William J. Clinton appointed Ellen Segal Huvelle to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 1999.

Was Ellen Segal Huvelle appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Ellen Segal Huvelle was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Ellen Segal Huvelle's confirmation vote?

Ellen Segal Huvelle was confirmed by voice vote on October 15, 1999. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

District of Columbia / Appointed 1999 / Served to 2025

Ellen Segal Huvelle

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Appointed by President William J. Clinton in 1999 and confirmed by voice vote, Ellen Segal Huvelle was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She earned a law degree from Boston College Law School in 1975. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Appointed by: William J. Clinton, 1999
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Wellesley College 1970 · Boston College Law School 1975
Succeeded: John Garrett Penn
Succeeded by: Amit Priyavadan Mehta

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	District of Columbia succeeded John Garrett Penn	Clinton (D)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Wellesley College	B.A.	1970
Yale School of Architecture	M.C.P.	1972
Boston College Law School	J.D.	1975

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Huvelle was assigned 1,887 district-court cases (1976–2019). Median time from filing to termination: 193 days across 1,871 closed cases.

Other federal statutes25%

Civil rights20%

Prisoner & habeas12%

Contract10%

Personal-injury torts8%

Labor & ERISA8%

Other16%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 175 of Huvelle’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 138 were affirmed, 20 reversed or vacated, and 17 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Huvelle authored 1,380 published opinions for the court (2000–2020). Most cited: Al-Ahmed v. Chertoff (240 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2008	Al-Ahmed v. Chertoff	564 F. Supp. 2d 16	240
2000	American Farm Bureau v. United States Environmental Protection Agency	121 F. Supp. 2d 84	198
2009	Rattigan v. Gonzales	503 F. Supp. 2d 56	164
2008	International Painters & Allied Trades Industry Pension Fund v. Auxier Drywall, LLC	531 F. Supp. 2d 56	163
2009	Franklin v. Potter	600 F. Supp. 2d 38	123
2000	Waterhouse v. District of Columbia	124 F. Supp. 2d 1	111
2004	Defenders of Wildlife v. United States Department of the Interior	314 F. Supp. 2d 1	106
2011	Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System	762 F. Supp. 2d 123	97
2008	Ben-Rafael v. Islamic Republic of Iran	540 F. Supp. 2d 39	94
2015	Moradi v. Islamic Republic of Iran	77 F. Supp. 3d 57	92
2009	Fischer v. U.S. Department of Justice	596 F. Supp. 2d 34	91
2009	Brewer v. Islamic Republic of Iran	664 F. Supp. 2d 43	87
2004	Kaseman v. District of Columbia	329 F. Supp. 2d 20	85
2010	Middlebrooks v. Godwin Corp.	722 F. Supp. 2d 82	81
2005	Friends of Blackwater v. United States Department of the Interior	391 F. Supp. 2d 115	70

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,380 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

Who appointed Ellen Segal Huvelle?: President William J. Clinton appointed Ellen Segal Huvelle to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 1999.
Was Ellen Segal Huvelle appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Ellen Segal Huvelle was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Ellen Segal Huvelle's confirmation vote?: Ellen Segal Huvelle was confirmed by voice vote on October 15, 1999. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was Ellen Segal Huvelle on?: Ellen Segal Huvelle was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

25 years on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).