The Honorable Anna White Howard serves as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, appointed to the federal bench in April 2025. Before joining the judiciary, Judge Howard was on faculty at the University of Georgia School of Law, where she taught legal writing, served as the school’s judicial liaison, and practiced in the school’s Appellate Litigation Clinic — supervising students representing indigent clients before federal circuits, the Supreme Court of Georgia, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to her teaching role, she was an associate at Butler Wooten & Peak, where she litigated False Claims Act qui tam, product liability, and catastrophic personal injury cases. She also served as a career law clerk for Judge Leigh Martin May and a term law clerk for Judge Richard W. Story, both of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Within the FBA, Judge Howard serves as Chair of the Judiciary Division’s Magistrate Judges Committee and was the FY25 President of the Atlanta FBA Chapter.