Judge Donahue was appointed as a United States Magistrate Judge in May 2020 and sits in
Los Angeles.
Before her appointment, Judge Donahue served in a number of roles at the United States
Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, including Chief of Trials, Integrity and
Professionalism. In that role, she provided advice in a broad array of federal criminal and
civil litigation. She also served as Chief of the National Security Division and the Violent and
Organized Crime Section, and she handled a wide variety of matters from investigation
through appeal and tried numerous cases. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at
Loyola Law School teaching appellate advocacy, and she was a litigation associate at Jeffer
Mangels Butler & Mitchell.
Judge Donahue received her J.D. from the UCLA School of Law and her A.B. from Stanford
University.
