Judge Virginia Phillips (CDCA); Susan Gelmis (Chief Deputy-Operations: Ninth Circuit); Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman (District of Oregon); Mo Hamoudi (AFPD: WDWA); Judge Phyllis Hamilton (NDCA); Kiry Gray (Clerk of Court: CDCA) ; Alexander Samuels (AUSA: District of Arizona); Magistrate Judge Candy Dale (District of Idaho). (Photo: Courtesy Photo)
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In the early hours of March 4, 2020, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stacie Beckerman of the District of Oregon received an urgent email message from another magistrate judge in Seattle. The local federal detention center in the Western District of Washington had issued a 48-hour lockdown due to a suspected case of the coronavirus.
