--- title: "Theodore David Chuang | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/theodore-d-chuang" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-09" --- # Theodore David Chuang U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland · Judge ## Profile - Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland - State: Maryland - 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 - Judge, District Court, D. Maryland, 2014-present - President Barack Obama nominated Chuang on September 25, 2013, to the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, filling the seat vacated by Judge Roger W. Titus - He subsequently served in investigative counsel roles for the U.S. House of Representatives and as Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security from 2009 until his judicial appointment - From 2004 to 2007, he worked in private practice at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in Washington, D.C - He then held the role of a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (1995–1998) and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Massachusetts (1998–2004) - Began his legal career as a law clerk for Judge Dorothy Wright Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1994–1995) - Law clerk, Hon. Dorothy W. Nelson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1994-1995 ### Education - Harvard University — J.D. (1994) - Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1994, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review - Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Harvard University in 1991 - Harvard College ### Additional information - Chief investigative counsel, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, 2009-present - deputy general counsel, 2011-2014 - U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 2009-2014 - associate general counsel, 2009-2011 - Deputy chief investigative counsel, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 2007-2009 - Theodore David Chuang, born in 1969 in Media, Pennsylvania, is a federal judge serving in Greenbelt, Maryland. - Date of birth: 1969-01-01 - He comes from a Taiwanese American family and grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, where he served two terms in the Lexington Town Meeting, the town’s legislative body. - Birth place: Media, PA ## 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 ### courtroom technology Scope: courtwide Courtwide presentation-related guidance applies to this judge. Evidence excerpt: Jury Evidence Recording System (JERS) . The District has two Jury Evidence Recording System (JERS) equipment in each division. JERS allows for jurors to view exhibits electronically in the jury deliberation room. [Courthouse/Courtroom Technology | District of Maryland | United States District Court](https://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/courthousecourtroom-technology) Source checked: 2026-07-24 ### 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/1394471) - [Official roster](https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394471) - [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/node/1394471) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/618/theodore-david-chuang/) - [Courthouse/Courtroom Technology | District of Maryland | United States District Court](https://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/courthousecourtroom-technology) - [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/618/theodore-david-chuang/) - [Wikidata: Theodore D. Chuang](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16205057) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/theodore-d-chuang", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/theodore-d-chuang", "name": "Theodore David Chuang | KnowJudges", "description": "Theodore David Chuang, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. 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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.