DeAndrea Gist Benjamin (née DeAndrea Donale Gist;[1] born October 4, 1972)[2][3] is an American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

[2] In 2001, Governor Jim Hodges appointed Benjamin to the Juvenile Parole Board where she served from July 2001 to June 2004.

President Biden nominated Benjamin to the seat vacated by Judge Henry F. Floyd, who assumed senior status on December 31, 2021.

[12] During her confirmation hearing, Republican senators questioned her decisions granting bond and early release of defendants.

[16][17][18] On January 3, 2023, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate; she was renominated later the same day.

[4] In December 2013, Benjamin's brother Donald Gist Jr. was shot and killed in a parking lot of a Queens Mini-Mart store in Charlotte, North Carolina.