Lewis J. Liman

Lisa Cohen Liman

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(m. 1999)​

Lewis J. Liman
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Incumbent
Assumed office December 31, 2019
Children	2
Relatives	Arthur L. Liman (father) Doug Liman (brother)
Education	Harvard University (BA) London School of Economics (MSc) Yale University (JD)

Lewis Jeffrey Liman (born December 3, 1960) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Education

Liman graduated from the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. He earned his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude , from Harvard College, his Master of Science with distinction from the London School of Economics, and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School, where he served as an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal and as an editor of the Yale Journal of International Law . ^[2]

Career

Upon graduation from law school he spent a brief period as an attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He served as a law clerk to Judge Pierre N. Leval of the Southern District of New York before Leval was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then subsequently clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States. ^[2]

Before entering private practice, Liman served for five years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he rose to serve as Deputy Chief of Appeals.

From 2003 to 2019, he was a partner in the New York City office of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, where he has handled a wide range of civil, commercial, and white collar criminal litigation. ^[2]

Federal judicial service

In August 2017, Liman was one of several candidates pitched to New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand by the White House for vacancies on the federal courts in New York. ^[3] On May 10, 2018, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Liman to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York as part of a bipartisan package of judicial nominees which included Mary Kay Vyskocil, Rachel Kovner, and Eric Komitee. On May 15, 2018, his nomination was sent to the Senate. He was nominated to the seat that was vacated by Judge Paul A. Crotty, who assumed senior status on August 1, 2015. ^[4] On August 1, 2018, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On September 13, 2018, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 17–4 vote. ^[5]

On January 3, 2019, his nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate. On April 8, 2019, President Trump announced the renomination of Liman to the district court. ^[6] On May 21, 2019, his nomination was sent to the Senate. ^[7] On June 20, 2019, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 15–7 vote. ^[8] On December 19, 2019, the Senate confirmed his nomination by a 64–29 vote. ^[9] He received his judicial commission on December 31, 2019. ^[10]

Personal Life

Liman married his wife Lisa (née Cohen) in 1999. ^[11] An alumnus of Barnard College, she was previously the institution's director of alumnae programs. ^[12] They have two daughters. ^[13]

See also

• List of Jewish American jurists
• List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 4)

References

1. Voruganti, Harsh (2018-08-09). "Lewis Liman – Nominee to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York". The Vetting Room. Retrieved 2021-05-26.
2. "President Donald J. Trump Announces Fourteenth Wave of Judicial Nominees, Thirteenth Wave of United States Attorney Nominees, and Eighth Wave of United States Marshal Nominees" White House, May 10, 2018 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. Tillman, Zoe (August 7, 2017). "The White House Has Pitched A Nominee For Manhattan's Powerful US Attorney Opening". BuzzFeed . Retrieved May 10, 2018.
4. "Fifteen Nominations and One Withdrawal Sent to the Senate Today" White House, May 15, 2018
5. Results of Executive Business Meeting – September 13, 2018 Senate Judiciary Committee
6. "President Donald J. Trump Announces Judicial Nominations", White House, April 8, 2019
7. "Twelve Nominations Sent to the Senate", The White House, May 21, 2019
8. Results of Executive Business Meeting – June 20, 2019, Senate Judiciary Committee
9. "On the Nomination (Confirmation: Lewis J. Liman, of New York, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York)". www.senate.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-19.
10. Lewis J. Liman at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges , a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .
11. "Vows: Lisa Cohen and Lewis Liman". The New York Times . January 24, 1999.
12. "BC Appoints New Alumae Director". Columbia Daily Spectator . September 11, 2000.
13. "Liman at 20: Launching and Celebrating the New Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law" (PDF). Liman Center Report Fall 2017. Yale Law School.

External links

• Lewis J. Liman at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges , a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .
• Appearances at the U.S. Supreme Court from the Oyez Project

Legal offices
Preceded by Paul A. Crotty	Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York 2019–present	Incumbent