Tiffany M. Cartwright is a U.S. district judge for the Western District of Washington, sitting in Tacoma. President Joe Biden nominated her, and the Senate confirmed her in July 2023. Before joining the bench she practiced law in Seattle and Chicago and clerked for Judge Betty Binns Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Dana A. Fabe of the Alaska Supreme Court. She is a graduate of Stanford University and Stanford Law School.
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Acting U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd told the federal court in western Washington on October 26, 2026 that his office lacks the lawyers to answer every immigration habeas petition. A judge then freed a detainee whose petition went unanswered.
