Nina Gershon | |
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Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
Assumed office October 16, 2008 | |
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
In office August 1,1996 –October 16,2008 | |
Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Leonard D. Wexler |
Succeeded by | William F. Kuntz II |
Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
In office 1976–1996 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Chicago,Illinois,U.S. | October 16,1940
Education | Cornell University (BA) Yale Law School (LLB) |
Nina Gershon (born October 16,1940) [1] is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 at the recommendation of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. [2] She assumed senior status on October 16,2008.
Born in Chicago,Illinois,Gershon received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with honors from Cornell University in 1962 and a Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1965. [3] In 1965 and 1966,she was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics' Hampstead Clinic. [ citation needed ] She was a Staff attorney of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York,Mental Health Information Service from 1966 to 1968,and was then assistant corporation counsel with the Appeals Division of the New York City Law Department from 1968 to 1969,and from 1970 to 1972. [3] She was a professor of law and political science at the University of California,San Diego from 1969 to 1970. [3] She was an attorney for the New York City Law Department from 1972 to 1976,serving as Chief of the Federal Appeals Division from 1972 to 1975 and Chief of the Consumer Protection Division from 1975 to 1976. [3]
In 1976,Gershon became a United States magistrate judge of the Southern District of New York,an office she would hold for twenty years. She was also an adjunct professor of law at the Cardozo School of Law from 1986 to 1988. On October 18,1995,Gershon was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York vacated by Leonard D. Wexler. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 30,1996,and received her commission on August 1,1996. She assumed senior status on October 16,2008. [3]
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