Gerard E. Lynch
| Gerard Edmund Lynch | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | |
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Assumed office September 5, 2016 |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | |
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In office September 18, 2009 – September 5, 2016 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Chester J. Straub |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
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In office May 25, 2000 – September 21, 2009 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | John E. Sprizzo |
| Succeeded by | Paul A. Engelmayer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Gerard Edmund Lynch September 4, 1951 New York City, New York |
| Education |
Columbia University B.A. Columbia Law School J.D. |
Gerard Edmund Lynch (born September 4, 1951) is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was confirmed to that seat on September 17, 2009 after previously having been appointed in 2000 by President Bill Clinton to serve on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Lynch was the first appeals-court judge nominated by President Barack Obama to win confirmation from the United States Senate.
Lynch is also the Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lynch graduated from Regis High School in 1968, received his Bachelors of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1972, and his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 1975, graduating first in his class at all three institutions. He joined the Columbia faculty in 1977, following judicial clerkships for Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1975-76 and United States Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. in 1976-77. He served as Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1980 to 1983, prosecuting white-collar criminal cases and serving as chief appellate attorney. He returned to that office as chief of the criminal division in 1990-92. He was in private practice of law in New York City from 1992 to 2000.
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