On September 11, 2019, Ada Brown was confirmed by the Senate as a United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas. Prior to her confirmation, Judge Brown served on the Texas Fifth Court of Appeals. Before that, she was a patent and complex-commercial litigator at McKool Smith. She also previously worked as an Assistant District Attorney for Dallas County, Texas, and served as a judge on the Dallas County Criminal Court.
Judge Brown has a B.A., magna cum laude, from Spelman College, which she received in 1996, and a J.D. from Emory University School of Law, which she received in 1999.
Her chambers are in Dallas.