Julia Diaz-Rex

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Then-Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker appointed Julia Diaz-Rex to begin hearingcases in March 2019. Judge Diaz-Rex earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1990 from Florida International University, a Juris Doctor in 1993 from Western Michigan University Thomas M.Cooley Law School, and a Master of Science in 2015 from the U.S. Army War College. From 2005 to 2019, Judge Diaz-Rex served as an assistant U.S. attorney in various capacities for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Juan, Puerto Rico, including chief of the narcotics unit from 2015to 2019; a senior trial attorney in the major crimes unit from 2012 to 2015; and an assistant U.S.attorney in the financial and economic crimes unit from 2005 to 2012. From 1999 to present,Judge Diaz-Rex served in various capacities in the U.S. Army Reserve, Army National Guard,and the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, including as a military judge from 2017 to 2019, in Alexandria, Virginia; security justice advisor in 2017, in Jerusalem, Israel; commander of the174th Legal Operations Detachment from 2015 to 2017, in Miami; staff judge advocate of the 1st Mission Support Command from 2012 to 2015, at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico; command judgeadvocate of the 210th Regional Support Group from 2009 to 2011, in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico;chief of justice of 174th Legal Operations Detachment attached to 1st Mission Support Commandfrom 2006 to 2009, at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico; staff judge advocate in the Army National Guard from 2001 to 2006, in Ohio and Puerto Rico; judge advocate in the 9th District from 1999to 2001, in Cleveland, Ohio. From 2004 to 2005, she was a trial attorney with Roth Biermann,LLP, in Cleveland, Ohio. From 2000 to 2004, she was a senior trial attorney/assistant attorneygeneral with the Ohio Attorney General’s Office, in Columbus and Cleveland, Ohio. From 1995to 1999, she was an active duty judge advocate with the U.S. Coast Guard in Miami. From 1994to 1995, she served an assistant public defender in Barstow, Florida. Judge Diaz-Rex is amember of the Florida Bar and Ohio State Bar.