Born in
Baltimore, Guirola received a
Bachelor of Arts degree from
William Carey College in 1973. He subsequently received a
Juris Doctor from the
University of Mississippi Law School in 1979. He was in private practice in
Mississippi from 1979 to 1980 and again from 1986 to 1990. He was an assistant district attorney of 19th Judicial District, Mississippi from 1980 to 1984, and a county board attorney of Jackson County, Mississippi from 1984 to 1986. He was an
Assistant United States Attorney of the Eastern District of Texas from 1990 to 1993.
Federal judicial service Guirola was a
United States magistrate judge of the
United States District Court for the Western District of Texas from 1993 to 1996, and of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi from 1996 to 2004. On September 23, 2003, Guirola was nominated by President
George W. Bush to a seat on the Southern District of Mississippi vacated by Judge
Walter J. Gex III. Guirola was confirmed by the
United States Senate on March 12, 2004, and received his commission on March 22, 2004. He assumed
senior status on March 23, 2018. and upheld Mississippi’s five-day absentee-ballot counting window in July 2024.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court On May 15, 2019, Chief Justice
John Roberts appointed Guirola to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for a term beginning July 2, 2019.
Alien Terrorist Removal Court In 2021, he was appointed to a 5-year term on the
United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court. == See also ==