--- title: "Jonathan James Canada Grey | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/jonathan-james-canada-grey" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-08" --- # Jonathan James Canada Grey U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan · Judge ## Profile - Court: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan - State: Michigan - Role: Judge - Service status: active - Last verified: 2026-07-25 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## Biography ### Professional career - U.S. Magistrate Judge, Eastern District of Michigan (2021–2023) - Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of Ohio, 2016-2021 - Assistant U.S. attorney, Eastern District of Michigan, 2012-2016 - Law clerk, Hon. Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2010-2011 - Law clerk, Hon. W. Louis Sands, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, 2009-2010 - Clerk to Judge Willie Sands, District Court, M.D. Georgia, 2009-2010 - American federal judge serving on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ### Education - Georgetown University — J.D. (2021) - Georgetown University Law Center — J.D. (2007) - Morehouse College — B.A. (2004) - Morehouse College — B.S. (2004) ### Additional information - Magistrate, District Court, E.D. Michigan, MI, 2021-present - Nominated by President Joe Biden on September 6, 2022, to replace Judge Denise Page Hood - Assistant U.S. Attorney, Detroit, Michigan, and Ohio, 2012-2016 - Private practice, Chicago, Illinois, 2007-2009, 2011-2012 - Born 1982 in Poplarville, Mississippi. - Date of birth: 1982 - Practitioner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, ?-present - As a district judge, Grey presides over civil and criminal cases in the Eastern District of Michigan. - Succeeded Judge Denise Page Hood - Birth place: Poplarville ## Before you appear - Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed. - Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance. - Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding. ## Courtroom Rules ### civil remote testimony Scope: courtwide In federal district-court civil proceedings, testimony is ordinarily taken in open court; remote contemporaneous testimony requires good cause in compelling circumstances and appropriate safeguards. Evidence excerpt: For good cause in compelling circumstances and with appropriate safeguards, the court may permit testimony in open court by contemporaneous transmission from a different location. [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedure) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ### criminal recording and broadcasting Scope: courtwide Federal district courts may not permit courtroom photography or broadcasting during criminal judicial proceedings unless a statute or another federal rule provides an exception. Evidence excerpt: Except as otherwise provided by a statute or these rules, the court must not permit the taking of photographs in the courtroom during judicial proceedings or the broadcasting of judicial proceedings from the courtroom. [Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited](https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records/access-court-proceedings/remote-public-access-proceedings/history-cameras-broadcasting-and-remote-public-access-courts) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ## Sources - [Official profile](https://www.fjc.gov/node/13338916) - [Official roster](https://www.fjc.gov/node/13338916) - [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/node/13338916) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/15342/jonathan-jc-grey/) - [Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 43(a), Testimony in Open Court](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-civil-procedure) - [Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53, Courtroom Photographing and Broadcasting Prohibited](https://www.uscourts.gov/court-records/access-court-proceedings/remote-public-access-proceedings/history-cameras-broadcasting-and-remote-public-access-courts) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/15342/jonathan-jc-grey/) - [Judge Jonathan James Canada Grey](https://www.fjc.gov/node/13338916) - [Wikidata: Jonathan J.C. Grey](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113681642) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/jonathan-james-canada-grey", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/jonathan-james-canada-grey", "name": "Jonathan James Canada Grey | KnowJudges", "description": "Jonathan James Canada Grey, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. 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Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule. [Official source](https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/federal-rules-of-civil-procedure.pdf). Collected 2026-10-27. - [Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, December 1, 2025](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-8721a344fececced2257fe1d) — Criminal proceedings in United States District Courts; this conservative mapping does not distribute appellate-specific provisions to appellate judges. Section-specific exceptions, waivers, later amendments and case orders remain applicable. This is a source excerpt, not an exhaustive statement of the rule. [Official source](https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure.pdf). Collected 2026-10-27.