Daniel Aaron Bress (born 1979)[1] is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

He studied government at Harvard University, graduating in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude.

[1] After graduating from law school, Bress served as a law clerk to judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 2005 to 2006 and then for justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2006 to 2007.

[2] He then entered private practice in the San Francisco office of the law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson.

[3] On January 30, 2019, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Bress to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.