Cameron McGowan Currie Biography – Cameron McGowan Currie Wiki

Cameron McGowan Currie serves as a Senior Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina. Her appointment came from President Bill Clinton, who nominated her on January 27, 1994, to succeed Judge Falcon Black Hawkins Jr. The Senate confirmed her nomination on March 10, 1994, and she officially began her duties the following day. She transitioned to senior status on October 3, 2013.

Judge Currie is an alumna of the former McClenaghan High School and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of South Carolina in 1970. She went on to obtain her Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School in 1975, as noted by the Federal Judicial Center.

Originating from Florence, Currie began her legal journey as a law clerk for Hon. Arthur L. Burnett, a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the District of Columbia, from 1973 to 1974. She then entered private practice in Washington, D.C., between 1975 and 1978. Thereafter, she worked as an assistant U.S. attorney, first in the District of Columbia and later in South Carolina from 1978 to 1984.

In 1984, Currie was appointed as a U.S. magistrate judge in South Carolina, serving until 1986. She then returned to private practice in Columbia, where she also held a position as an adjunct law professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law from 1986 to 1989. Her career further advanced when she became the chief deputy attorney general of South Carolina from 1989 until her federal bench appointment in 1994.

President Bill Clinton nominated her for the federal judiciary role in January 1994 to take over from Judge Falcon Black Hawkins Jr. Following Senate confirmation in March 1994, she assumed her judicial responsibilities, transitioning to 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.