Diane Gujarati

Diane Gujarati is the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Biography

Gujarati received her Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1990 and her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1995. She began her legal career as a law clerk to John M. Walker Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1995 to 1996. Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office, Gujarati was an associate in the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP from 1996 to 1999. From 2006 to 2008, she was Deputy Chief of the Appeals Unit in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Prior to her tenure as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, from 2008 to 2012, she served as Deputy Chief and then Chief of the White Plains Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Since 2012 she has been the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York since 2012, and she has served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division since 1999.^[1] She is a Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law.^[2]

Nomination to district court

On September 13, 2016, President Obama nominated Gujarati to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, to the seat vacated by Judge John Gleeson, who resigned on March 9, 2016. Her nomination is currently pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.^[3] If confirmed Gujarati would be the first Article III judge of South-Asian descent in New York.^[4]

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