Impeaching Eleanor L. Ross, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1346 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1346

 Impeaching Eleanor L. Ross, Judge of the United States District Court 
for the Northern District of Georgia, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 8, 2026

 Mr. Fuller submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                               RESOLUTION

 
 Impeaching Eleanor L. Ross, Judge of the United States District Court 
for the Northern District of Georgia, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

    Resolved, That Eleanor L. Ross, Judge of the United States District 
Court for the Northern District of Georgia, is impeached for high 
crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following article of impeachment 
be exhibited to the United States Senate.
     Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives 
of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people 
of the United States of America, against Eleanor L. Ross, who was 
appointed, duly qualified, and commissioned to serve, during good 
behavior in office, to be United States Judge for the Northern District 
of Georgia on November 18, 2014.

               article i: misleading and false statements

    
     Judge Eleanor L. Ross made material false and misleading 
statements as follows:
     Between October 2023 and October 2025, Judge Ross engaged in 
sexual intercourse with a high-ranking official of the Atlanta Police 
Department inside her Federal courthouse chambers during regular 
business hours, while actively presiding over criminal cases.
     These activities were conducted within earshot of her judicial 
staff.
     On September 30, 2025, Eleventh Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor 
identified a complaint about this behavior from a law clerk in Judge 
Ross's office and appointed a Special Committee to investigate the 
complaint.
     The Special Committee determined that Judge Ross lied to Chief 
Judge Pryor as well as to Chief Judge of the Northern District of 
Georgia Leigh Martin May regarding this sexual activity in her private 
office.
     Specifically, Judge Ross falsely claimed that she had ``never 
engaged in sexual intercourse in [her] office, nor anywhere else in the 
Courthouse'', and that she was ``not sure who this allegation concerns 
or whether it is alleged to have occurred with different individuals''.
     Even though Judge Ross later admitted her falsehoods to the 
Special Committee, this occurred after the Special Committee had taken 
significant actions including a review of security camera footage and 
sign-in logs; background research on the Officer; interviews of five of 
the Judge's former clerks; inspection of the layout of the Judge's 
chambers; and laboratory testing of furnishings of the Judge's chamber.
     The Special Committee concluded that Judge Ross engaged in 
misconduct including sexual conduct in her office during business 
hours, and made material false and misleading statements to Chief Judge 
Pryor and Chief District Judge May that had a detrimental affect on the 
investigation of misconduct and the administration of the district 
court.
     Her actions exhibit a reckless disregard for her professional 
obligations, proving her wholly unfit to continue holding the office of 
a Federal judge.
     Wherefore, Judge Ross is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors 
and should be removed from office.
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