Aileen Cannon is a Donald Trump-nominated United States District judge who is married to her husband Josh Lorence. Aileen has been the judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida since 2020.
Aileen was born in Cali, Columbia, in 1981 and moved to the United States with her parents when she was young. She got her bachelor's degree and Juris Doctor from the United States.
On April 29, 2020, President Donald Trump nominated Cannon to the seat vacated by Judge Kenneth Marra. On May 21, 2020, her nomination was sent to the United States Senate.
After a hearing held by the Senate Judiciary Committee, her nomination was initially reported out of the committee by a 16–6 vote. However, on November 12, 2020, the Senate voted 56–21 to confirm her nomination, and she received her judicial commission the next day.
Judge Aileen Cannon is married to Josh Lorence. The couple has been married for over a decade.
Josh Lorence was a restaurant manager, and Aileen Cannon was an attorney while they married on June 7, 2008. Josh was 27, and Aileen was 28, as per The Knot.
Lorence proposed to Cannon while on a trip to Athens, Greece. On the first day of their journey, he found a scenic point overlooking the ancient ruins and asked Aileen to marry him.
The couple is the parents of at least two children. Cannon mentioned her second pregnancy when applying to serve as a federal judge in 2015. She was on maternity leave in October 2015.
Cannon is not on social media, which makes it challenging to get more information about her personal life. She has kept her private life out of the media attention.
Aileen Cannon's mother fled from communist Cuba and is of Hispanic ethnicity. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Arts from Duke University. After graduation, she studied at the University of Michigan Law School and graduated with a Juris Doctor, Magna Laude.
The Florida district judge started her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Steven Colloton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. She has been a member of the Federalist Society since 2005.
Aileen Cannon has not revealed her net worth publicly. However, she is worth at least $1 million.
She is a US district judge of the District Court of Florida, nominated by Donald Trump and confirmed by the United States Senate in 2020.
According to salary.com, The average salary of a Judge in Florida is $165,154 as of August 29, 2022, ranging between $161,998 and $184,825. As a District Judge, Cannon earns the upper average salary range.
She worked as an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
