Margaret B. Seymour

Margaret B. Seymour (born 1947) is a Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.

Born in Washington, D.C., Seymour received a B.A. from Howard University in 1969 and a J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law in 1977. She was an equal opportunity specialist for the U.S. Department of Health, Education & Welfare from 1972 to 1979, and for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1979 to 1980. She was an attorney in the Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education from 1980 to 1988. She was in private practice from 1988 to 1990. She was an assistant U.S. Attorney of the District of South Carolina from 1990 to 1996, serving as the United States Attorney (interim) for that district from 1993 to 1996.

Seymour was a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina from 1996 to 1998. On September 9, 1998, Seymour was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the District of South Carolina vacated by William B. Traxler. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 21, 1998, and received her commission on October 22, 1998. On January 3, 2012, she became chief judge, serving as such until she took senior status on January 16, 2013.

Sources

• Margaret B. Seymour at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.