Emily Coody Marks
Quick Facts
Biography
Rebecca Grady Jennings (born March 6, 1973) is an American lawyer and currently is a partner at a firm in Montgomery, Alabama. She is currently a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
Biography
Marks was born March 6, 1973 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. She earned her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Spring Hill College, and her Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law, where she served as chair of the John A. Campbell Moot Court Board and as a senior editor of the University of Alabama Law & Psychology Review.
She is currently is a partner in the Montgomery, Alabama, office of Ball, Ball, Matthews & Novak, P.A., where she has practiced since joining the firm as an associate in 1998. She specializes in labor and employment law, civil rights law, and appellate practice, and routinely lectures on these topics before employers and other members of the bar.
Nomination to district court
On September 7, 2017, President Trump nominated Marks to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, to the seat vacated by Judge Myron Herbert Thompson, who assumed senior status on August 22, 2013. Her nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.