Judge Cameron McGowan Currie Wikipedia, Age, Salary, Political Party

Cameron McGowan Currie Biography – Cameron McGowan Currie Wiki

Cameron McGowan Currie is Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. She was nominated to the federal bench by President William J. Clinton on January 27, 1994, to a seat vacated by Judge Falcon Black Hawkins Jr. She was confirmed by the Senate on March 10, 1994, and received commission on March 11, 1994. She assumed senior status on October 3, 2013.

Judge Currie graduated from the former McClenaghan High School and earned her B.A. from the University of South Carolina in 1970. She received her J.D. from George Washington University Law School in 1975, according to the Federal Judicial Center.

The Florence native began her legal career as a law clerk for Hon. Arthur L. Burnett, U.S. Magistrate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, from 1973-1974. She then worked in private practice in Washington, D.C., from 1975-1978. She went on to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney in both the District of Columbia and South Carolina, from 1978-1980 and 1980-1984 respectively.

Currie was appointed a U.S. magistrate judge for South Carolina in 1984. She served as a U.S. Magistrate of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina from 1984 to 1986. She later returned to private practice in Columbia, where she also served as an adjunct professor of law at the University of South Carolina School of Law from 1986-1989. From 1989 to 1994, she was chief deputy attorney general of the State of South Carolina.

Judge Currie was nominated to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in January 1994 to fill the vacancy left by Judge Falcon Black Hawkins Jr. She was confirmed by the Senate in March 1994 and took senior status in 2013.

Cameron McGowan Currie Age

U.S. District Senior Judge Cameron McGowan Currie was born in 1948 in Florence, South Carolina, to attorney John Livingston McGowan and Virginia Bracey McGowan, a University of South Carolina chemistry graduate.

Cameron McGowan Currie Salary

U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie receives an annual salary of $247,400.

United States of America v. James B. Comey, Jr.

On October 21, 2025, the Honorable Cameron McGowan Currie, Senior United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, was designated and assigned to sit in the Eastern District of Virginia for the limited purpose of hearing and determining pending and future motions concerning the appointment, qualification, or disqualification of the United States Attorney or the United States Attorney’s Office in the case of United States of America v. James B. Comey, Jr., Criminal Action No. 1:25-cr-00272-MSN-1, and in other cases involving similar challenges against the United States Attorney or United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.

On November 24, 2025, judge Currie rejected a pair of legal efforts by the U.S. Justice Department to prosecute two of President Trump’s political rivals, James Comey and Letitia James. The decisions reaffirmed arguments made by attorneys for the former FBI director and New York State attorney general that Trump’s prosecutor — former White House aide and interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan — was illegally appointed to try the case in the first place.

Judge Currie left open the opportunity for the case to be re-filed, and the White House said there would be an appeal.

Cameron McGowan Currie Political Party

Federal judge Cameron McGowan Currie is an appointee of President Bill Clinton, a member of the Democratic Party.

Religion

Judge Currie is a Christian.