Margaret R. Guzman

On July 13, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Guzman to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. President Biden nominated Guzman to the seat vacated by Judge Timothy S. Hillman, who assumed senior status on July 1, 2022. On September 21, 2022, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On December 1, 2022, her nomination was reported out committee by a 12–10 vote. On January 3, 2023, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate; she was renominated later the same day. Her nomination is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee. If confirmed, she would be the first Hispanic individual to serve on the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

From 1992 to 2005, Guzman served as a public defender for the Massachusetts Committee for Public Counsel Services. She was a solo practitioner in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 2005 to 2009. From 2009 to 2017, she served as a judge on Dudley District Court. In 2012, the special counsel for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court noted that Guzman had acquitted all 149 defendants who appeared before her in bench trials on drunk driving charges. The report, which did not allege judicial misconduct, called for reform of procedures to ensure that lawyers did not engage in judge shopping. She joined the Ayer District Court in 2017.

Guzman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Clark University in 1989 and a Juris Doctor from the Boston University School of Law in 1992.

Margaret R. Guzman (born 1960) is an American attorney serving as a judge of the Ayer District Court in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. She is a nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.