Nina Gershon

Nina Gershon (born 1940) 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.[1] She assumed senior status on October 16, 2008.

Nina Gershon
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 byBill Clinton
Preceded byLeonard D. Wexler
Succeeded byWilliam Francis Kuntz
Magistrate of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
In office
1976–1996
Personal details
Born1940 (age 8081)
Chicago, Illinois
EducationCornell University (B.A.)
Yale Law School (LL.B.)

Education and career

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.[2] In 1965 and 1966, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics' Hampstead Clinic. 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.[2] She was a professor of law and political science at the University of California, San Diego from 1969 to 1970.[2] 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.[2]

Federal judicial service

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.[2]

Notable cases

References

  1. 142 Cong. Rec. S 9312
  2. "Gershon, Nina - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
  3. New York Times, October 4, 1999, "In Museum Case, Judge Has Eye for Law, if Not Art".
  4. Brooklyn Inst. of Arts & Scis v. City of New York & Rudolph W. Giuliani, 64 F. Supp. 2d 184, 205 (E.D.N.Y. 1999)
  5. Fried, Robert D. Mcfadden With Joseph P. (4 August 2000). "Judge Voids Law Certifying Kosher Food" via NYTimes.com.
  6. New York Times, May 25, 2006.
  7. "Man jailed over NY bombing plot". BBC News. January 8, 2007.
  8. "ccrjustice.org" (PDF).
  9. "Federal appeals court in NY rules against ACORN". Associated Press. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
Legal offices
Preceded by
Leonard D. Wexler
Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
1996–2008
Succeeded by
William Francis Kuntz
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