J. Michelle Childs biography: 13 things about US district judge born in Detroit, Michigan

Juliana Michelle Childs was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Professionally known as J. Michelle Childs, she is an expert in labor and employment law.

Childs is married to Floyd Angus. Here are 13 more things about her:

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1. In 1988, she graduated from the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida where she earned her bachelor’s degree in management.
2. In 1991, she earned her master’s degree in personnel and employment relations and her juris doctor from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina. In the same year, she worked for Nexsen Pruet Jacobs and Pollard, a law firm in Columbia as a summer associate.
3. From 1992 to 1999, she worked for Nexsen Pruet Jacobs and Pollard as an associate attorney.
4. In 2000, she became Nexsen Pruet Jacobs and Pollard’s first African American partner. In the same year, she and Angus got married. From 2000 to 2002, she served as the deputy director of the division of labor with the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation during the administration of 114th South Carolina governor James Hovis Hodges.
5. From 2002 until 2006, she served as a commissioner on the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission.
6. In 2006, the South Carolina General Assembly elected her to become Richland County Circuit Court Judge based in Columbia.
7. On August 20, 2010, she assumed office as the judge of the U.S. district court for the district of South Carolina, USA. She was appointed by 44th U.S. president Barack Obama.
8. As an adviser, she participated in the compilation of the Restatement of the Law Third: Employment Law, a legal treatise published in 2015. 
9. In 2016, she earned her master’s degree in judicial studies from the Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
10. In August 2018, she refused to enjoin a state law that forced a state utility to cut its customers’ rates after the failed construction of two new nuclear reactors in Fairfield County, South Carolina.
11. In 2020, she was elected chair of the judicial division of the American Bar Association.
12. In December 2021, she rejected a request to enjoin a vaccine mandate from workers at a nuclear facility in South Carolina. She ruled that the company did not have to continue employing someone who refused to get vaccinated amid the new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
13. She was 55 years old when the White House confirmed on January 28, 2022 that she is among those 46th U.S. president Joe Biden is considering for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.