Judge Jia Cobb
District of Columbia U.S. District Court
Jia Michelle Cob was born in 1980 in Springfield, Ohio. She earned an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and received her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. She clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
She worked as a trial attorney for the District of Columbia Public Defender Service. She also taught law at the Washington College of Law and Harvard Law School. She was in private practice for nine years.
Cobb served as an elected member of the District of Columbia Bar’s Criminal Law and Individual Rights Section Screening Committee.
She was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as a district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was confirmed by the Senate after a cloture vote and received her commission in November 2021.
In the News…
Federal Judge Jia Cobb of the District of Columbia U.S. District Court recently dismissed a lawsuit that had been filed by Federal Bureau of Investigation officials who were connected to investigations of the January 6, 2021, Capitol protest. The employees were concerned that their identities would be released by President Trump’s administration after the Justice Department had requested a list of those who had been involved in investigating J6 protestors.
“Plaintiffs filed these cases in a whirlwind of chaos and fear,” Judge Cobb wrote, adding that “some former January 6 defendants, now pardoned and at large, called for FBI agents to be doxed (or worse). Since then, the dust has settled some—and this case has evolved.”
“The Court ordered expedited jurisdictional discovery to cut through the chaos and allow Plaintiffs to shore up their standing allegations,” Judge Cobb wrote. “That discovery revealed no evidence that Defendants are on the verge of disclosing Plaintiffs’ identities, nor have Plaintiffs plausibly alleged that such a disclosure is imminent. The Court must therefore dismiss Plaintiffs’ disclosure-related claims.”
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The Honorable Jia Cobb
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse
333 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
