Regina D. Cannon
How Judge Cannon rules, drawn from 22 signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
About Judge Cannon
Regina D. Cannon is a United States magistrate judge for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta. Before joining the court, she spent two decades as a trial and appellate attorney with the Federal Defender Program.
Judge Cannon's practices and standing orders
The court's website lists no individual practices or standing orders of Judge Cannon's own (checked October 9, 2026), so the court's local rules and general orders are the place to look (court page ↗).
Standing orders for every case in this court
Orders the court applies to all of its cases, whichever judge has them, as published on the court's website (checked October 9, 2026).
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“the Court declines to adopt the R&R [ECF 38] and denies the objections [ECF 40] as moot. The Court, however, agrees that Defendant Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice is entitled to summary judgment. Its motion [ECF 30] is therefore GRANTED.”
“Plaintiff's motions for leave [ECFs 104, 105] are DENIED, his objections [ECF 100] are OVERRULED, Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment [ECF 40] is GRANTED, and the R&R [ECF 98] is ADOPTED as the Order of this Court.”
“On March 12, 2024, United States Magistrate Judge Regina D. Cannon issued an R. & R. recommending that Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Indictment Due to Selective Prosecution, [Doc. 24], be denied. ... even construing Defendant's notices as objections to the Magistrate Judge's R. & R., those objections are OVERRULED.”
“Judge Cannon recommends that the Motion to Suppress Fruits of a Warrantless Cell Phone Search (Doc. No. [79]) be denied. ... the R&R (Doc. No. [139]) is received with approval and ADOPTED as the Order of this Court. Accordingly, the Motion to Suppress Fruits of a Warrantless Cell Phone Search (Doc. No. [79]) is DENIED.”
“For the reasons stated above, this Court RECOMMENDS that Mr. Pennington's Motion to Suppress Statements be DENIED. [Doc. 105]. Having now addressed all referred pretrial matters relating to Mr. Pennington and having not been advised of any impediments to the scheduling of a trial as to him, this case is CERTIFIED READY FOR TRIAL.”
“Based on the foregoing reasons, the undesigned RECOMMENDS that Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Superseding Indictment, [Doc. 22], be DENIED”
“RECOMMENDS that Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Count Two as Time Barred, [Doc. 51], be DENIED”
“RECOMMENDS that Defendant's Motion to Suppress Statements, [Doc. 24], be DENIED”
“ORDERS that Defendant's Motion for a Bill of Particulars, [Doc. 23], is DENIED”
“RECOMMENDS that Defendant's Motion to Strike Surplusage, [Doc.25], be DENIED.”
“For the reasons stated above, this Court RECOMMENDS that the Government's motion to re-consider this Court's Order to disclose the identity of the Confidential Source and his/her production at the Evidentiary Hearing (Doc. 119) be GRANTED.”
“Based on the foregoing reasons, the undersigned RECOMMENDS that Ms. Wortham's Motion to Dismiss, Vacate and Release, (Doc. 46) and her Motion to Dismiss for Failure to Prove Jurisdiction, (Doc. 46-1), be DENIED.”
“the undersigned RECOMMENDS that the Motion to Dismiss for Failure to Prove Jurisdiction (Doc. 46-1) be DENIED.”
“For all of the reasons presented above, the undersigned RECOMMENDS that Defendant's Motion to Suppress Evidence, (Doc. 31), be DENIED. Because there are no other pretrial motions pending before the undersigned, Mr. Mack's case is CERTIFIED READY FOR TRIAL.”
“Accordingly, the undersigned RECOMMENDS that the District Judge DISMISS this action WITHOUT PREJUDICE.”
“For the reasons stated above, it is RECOMMENDED that this action be DISMISSED without prejudice and a certificate of appealability be DENIED.”
“For the reasons stated above, it is RECOMMENDED that the instant motion to vacate (Doc. 544) be DENIED.”
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
- Judge Cannon's reviewed referral work includes general civil matters in the Atlanta Division, including two employment-discrimination cases in which defendants sought summary judgment, alongside criminal-duty matters involving suppression and dismissal of indictments.
- The available directly assigned matters are mostly recent and pending, so the record does not yet support a caseload-wide denominator.
Pending matters in the official report
Reported by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts under the Civil Justice Reform Act, as of March 31, 2026.
| Motions pending more than six months | 0 |
| Bench trials submitted more than six months | 0 |
| Bankruptcy appeals pending more than six months | 0 |
| Social Security appeals pending more than six months | 0 |
| Civil cases pending more than three years | 0 |
| Report | Motions over six months | Cases over three years |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2022 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2021 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2020 | 0 | 0 |
A snapshot on that date: matters listed may since have been decided or reassigned. A motion referred to a magistrate judge is counted for both judges. Motions in multidistrict litigation, section 2255 cases and Social Security appeals are not counted, and a very large three-year count is generally a multidistrict docket. Source: Appendix A of the report (PDF); about the report.
How long civil cases take in this court
For the whole of United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, not for Judge Cannon: median time from filing to disposition of the civil cases the court closed in the 12 months ending September 30, 2025, as reported by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
| Cases | Median time | |
|---|---|---|
| All civil cases closed | 6,703 | 4 months |
| Closed with no court action | 640 | 3 months |
| Closed before pretrial | 4,138 | 1.6 months |
| Closed during or after pretrial | 1,901 | 11.6 months |
| Closed during trial | 24 | 31.4 months |
| 12 months ending | Cases closed | Median time |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | 6,703 | 4 months |
| Sep 2024 | 6,190 | 5.3 months |
| Sep 2023 | 8,614 | 13.7 months |
| Sep 2022 | 5,403 | 5.1 months |
| Sep 2021 | 4,908 | 6 months |
| Sep 2020 | 4,463 | 5.7 months |
| Sep 2019 | 4,954 | 6.2 months |
The table leaves out prisoner petitions, land condemnations, deportation reviews, recovery of overpayments and enforcement of judgments, and reports no median for fewer than 10 cases. A district that closed a large multidistrict litigation in the period shows very large counts and long medians for that year. Source: Table C-5, U.S. District Courts (spreadsheet).
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