Christy C. Wiegand

Christy Criswell Wiegand is an American lawyer from Pennsylvania who is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Wiegand earned her undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Princeton University in 1997, and her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 2000, where she served as an Articles Editor on the Cornell Law Review.

Upon graduation from law school, Wiegand was in private practice at Arnold & Porter LLP, in Washington, D.C., where her practice focused on antitrust matters. She served as a law clerk to Judge D. Brooks Smith of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She previously served as the Deputy Chief of the Civil Division of the United States Attorney's Office. She currently serve as an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, where she prosecutes a variety of crimes, including large-scale drug trafficking, child exploitation, illegal firearms, and fraud.

On February 5, 2020, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Wiegand to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. On February 12, 2020, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Trump nominated Wiegand to the seat vacated by Judge Peter J. Phipps, who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on July 22, 2019.