| Mary Stenson Scriven | |
| Office: | Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida |
| Term Start: | September 30, 2008 |
| Appointer: | George W. Bush |
| Predecessor: | Patricia C. Fawsett |
| Office1: | Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida |
| Term Start1: | December 1997 |
| Term End1: | September 30, 2008 |
| Office2: | Commissioner of the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council |
| Term Start2: | 1993 |
| Term End2: | 1995 |
| Appointer2: | Lawton Chiles |
| Birth Name: | Mary Adrienne Stenson |
| Birth Date: | 20 October 1962 |
| Birth Place: | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Education: | Duke University (BA) University of Oxford (COM) Florida State University (JD) |
Mary Stenson Scriven (born October 20, 1962) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Scriven graduated from Duke University with her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983 and later from Florida State University College of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1987.
From 1983 to 1984 she was a substitute teacher with the Bibb County Board of Education in Macon, Georgia. In 1985, she was a research assistant at the Florida State University College of Law. From 1985 to 1986, she interned in the Majority office of the Florida House of Representatives. From 1986 to 1987 she was a summer associate with Carlton Fields in Tampa, Florida and later an intern with the law firm of Huey Guilday Kursteiner & Tucker.
Following law school graduation, Scriven was in private practice in Florida from 1987 to 1997. She was an associate professor at Stetson University College of Law from 1996 to 1997.
In 1993, she was nominated by Florida Governor Lawton Chiles to serve a two-year term on the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council. She was later confirmed by the Florida Senate and served until 1995.
Scriven started her judicial career as a United States magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida from 1997 to 2008. Scriven was nominated as a U.S. District Judge to the same jurisdiction by President George W. Bush on July 10, 2008, to fill a seat vacated by Patricia C. Fawsett, who assumed senior status. Scriven was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 26, 2008, and received her commission on September 30, 2008.