The Honorable Marty Fulgueira Elfenbein was sworn in as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Florida on March 11, 2024, and is based at the C. Clyde Atkins U.S. Courthouse in Miami. Before joining the federal judiciary, Judge Elfenbein served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Florida from September 2018 to March 2024, prosecuting cases in the Major Crimes and Economic and Environmental Crimes Sections. In her final year as a federal prosecutor, she served as Chief of the Collateral Litigation Section, overseeing all post-conviction litigation and filter reviews on a district-wide basis. Prior to her AUSA tenure, she clerked for the Honorable Beth Bloom in the Southern District of Florida. Before her government service, she was an associate and later a partner at Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell, P.A. from 2006 to 2016, where her federal and state practice focused on aviation law, products liability, premises liability, and insurance defense. She earned her B.S. in Newspaper Journalism and her J.D. in 2002 and 2005, respectively, both from the University of Florida.