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{{Short description|American judge (born 1962)}}
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| name = Alia Moses
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| office = Chief Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Western District of Texas]]
| term_start = November 18, 2022
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| predecessor = [[Orlando Luis Garcia]]
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| predecessor1 = [[Harry Lee Hudspeth]]
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| office2 = Magistrate Judge of the [[United States District Court for the Western District of Texas]]
| term_start2 = 1997
| term_end2 = 2002
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| education = {{nowrap|[[Texas Woman's University]] ([[Bachelor of Business Administration|BBA]])}}<br>{{nowrap|[[University of Texas at Austin]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])}}

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'''Alia Moses''' (born January 6, 1962),<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W6W_avmIJGUC&dq=Alia+Moses+Ludlum+born+1962&pg=PA487 |title=Confirmation Hearings on Federal Appointments: Hearings Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session |date=2003 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}}</ref> formerly known as '''Alia Moses Ludlum''', is the [[United States federal judge|chief United States district judge]] of the [[United States District Court for the Western District of Texas]].

==Early life and education==
Born in [[Eagle Pass, Texas]], Moses graduated in 1983 from [[Texas Woman's University]] with a [[Bachelor of Business Administration]] degree in Accounting, and in 1986 from the [[University of Texas School of Law]] with a [[Juris Doctor]].<ref name=FJCBio>{{FJC Bio|nid=1391681}}</ref>

==Career==
Following law school graduation, Moses was an attorney in the [[Travis County, Texas|Travis County]] Attorney's Office in Austin, Texas from 1986 to 1990. She was an [[assistant United States attorney]] and chief of the [[Del Rio, Texas|Del Rio]] office in the Western District of Texas from 1990 to 1997. She worked as a part-time [[Mediation|mediator]] in private practice from 1997 to 2000.

===Federal judicial service===
Moses began her federal judicial career as a [[United States magistrate judge]] when she was appointed to a four-year part-term in 1997. In 2000, she was promoted to a full-term magistrate judge.<ref name="FJCBio" />

On the recommendation of Texas Senators [[Phil Gramm]] and [[Kay Bailey Hutchison]], Moses was nominated by President [[George W. Bush]] on July 11, 2002, to the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. Her seat was previously held by [[Harry Lee Hudspeth]], who then went into [[senior status]]. Moses was confirmed by the [[United States Senate]] on November 14, 2002, and received her commission the next day. Moses was appointed to the court under the name of '''Alia Moses Ludlum'''. Moses became chief judge on November 18, 2022, when her predecessor [[Orlando Luis Garcia]] turned 70 years old.<ref name="FJCBio" />

===Notable case===

On October 30, 2023, Moses ordered Border Patrol agents to stop removing [[concertina wire]] installed by the government of Texas with the purpose of deterring migrants.<ref>{{Cite web|first1=Uriel J.|last1=García|url=https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/30/texas-border-lawsuit-concertina-wire-restraining-order-judge/|title=Federal judge orders immigration agents to stop removing Texas' concertina wire on the border|website=The Texas Tribune|date=October 30, 2023|access-date=October 31, 2023}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of Hispanic and Latino American jurists]]
*[[List of first women lawyers and judges in Texas]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
*{{FJC Bio|nid=1391681}}

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