Cannon, 42, was appointed by Trump in the waning days of his presidency in 2020. She’d been a federal prosecutor for seven years, but has only been a part of eight criminal trials that resulted in ...

She was born in Cali, Colombia, in 1981. Cannon came to the U.S. as a child, graduating from Duke University in 2003. Before becoming a judge, Aileen Cannon was a federal prosecutor.