Amalya Kearse
| Amalya Kearse | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #10 |
| Station: | New York, NY |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Jimmy Carter |
| Active: | 6/21/1979 - 6/11/2002 |
| Senior: | 6/11/2002 - Present |
| Preceded by: | New Seat |
| Succeeded by: | Reena Raggi |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1937 |
| Home State: | Vauxhall, NJ |
| Bachelors: | Wellesley College, B.A., 1959 |
| Law School: | U. of Michigan Law, J.D., 1962 |
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Early life and education
Born in Vauxhall, New Jersey, Kearse graduated from Wellesley College with her Bachelor's degree in 1959 and later graduated from University of Michigan Law School with her Juris Doctor degree in 1962.[1]
Professional career
Kearse was a private practice attorney in New York State from 1969 to 1972 and also taught as an adjunct lecturer at the New York University School of Law from 1968 to 1969. [2][1]
In 1979, Judge Kearse became the first woman to be elected to a fellowship in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Kearse was a member of the University of Michigan Law School Committee of Visitors from 1971 to 1979.
Judicial career
Second Circuit
On the recommendation of New Jersey U.S. Senators Bill Bradley and Harrison Williams, Kearse was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by President Jimmy Carter on May 3, 1979 to a new seat created by 92 Stat. 1629, which was approved by Congress. Kearse was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on June 19, 1979 on a Senate vote and received commission on June 21, 1979. Kearse assumed senior status on June 11, 2002.[1] She was succeeded to this post by Reena Raggi.
Awards and associations
Notable cases
See also
External links
References
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: NA - new seat |
Second Circuit 1979–present Seat #10 |
Succeeded by: Reena Raggi |
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| 1977 |
Ballantine • Bownes • Boyle • Bua • Carr • Clark • Cowan • Daly • Filippine • Higginbotham • Hoeveler • Hug • Johnstone • Kane • Keith • Leval • Logan • MacLaughlin • McKay • Melton • Merritt • Murphy • Nickerson • Oberdorfer • Roszkowski • Roy • Rubin • Sifton • Tang • Vance • Veron | ||
| 1978 |
Arnold • Baker • Boyle • Burns • Campos • Claiborne • Collins • Cook • Devine • Diamond • Duplantier • Edenfield • Friedman • Gonzalez • Greene • Jenkins • Lowe • Mazzone • McMillian • O'Brien • Pfaelzer • Phillips • Pollak • Sand • Shapiro • Simmons • Smith • Sweet • Tanner • Wiseman • Ziegler | ||
| 1979 |
Ackerman • Alarcon • Anderson • Arceneaux • Arnold • Aspen • Beatty • Beer • Belew • Bertelsman • Bilby • N. Black • S. Black • Bloch • Bowen • Brett • Brooks • Brown • Buchmeyer • Bunton • Burciaga • Cabranes • Carr • Carrigan • Castagna • Cire • Clark • Cohn • Conaboy • Cordova • Crabb • Cudahy • Davis • DeAnda • Debevoise • Edwards • Eginton • Ellison • Enslen • O. Evans • T. Evans • Farris • Ferguson • Fletcher • Frye • Garcia • Garza • B. Gibson • H. Gibson • Gierbolini-Ortiz • Giles • Gilliam • Green • Hall • Hastings • Hatchett • Hatfield • Hatter • Hawkins • Henderson • Higby • Hillman • Houck • Howard • Hudspeth • Hungate • F. Johnson • S. Johnson • N. Jones • S. Jones • Karlton • Kazen • Kearse • Keeton • Kehoe • Kennedy • Kidd • King • Kravitch • Loughlin • Martin • McCurn • McDonald • McNaught • McNichols • Mikva • Mitchell • Moran • Murnaghan • Murphy • D. Nelson • D.W. Nelson • Newblatt • Newman • Overton • Paine • Panner • J. Parker • R. Parker • Penn • Perez-Gimenez • Perry • Politz • Poole • Porter • Pregerson • Price • Rambo • Ramirez • Reavley • Redden • E. Reed • S. Reed • Reinhardt • Renner • Robinson • Rothstein • Sachs • Saffels • Sanders • Sarokin • Schroeder • Schwartz • Seay • Senter • Seymour • Shannon • Shaw • Shoob • Skopil • Sloviter • Sofaer • Spellman • Sprouse • Staker • Tate • Taylor • Thompson • Tidwell • Unthank • Vietor • Vining • Wald • Ward • Weinshienk • West • Wicker • Williams • Winder • Woods • Wright • Zobel | ||
| 1980 |
Aguilar • Aldrich • Anderson • Boochever • Breyer • Britt • Cahill • Canby • Carroll • Cerezo • Clemon • S. Ervin • R. Erwin • Getzendanner • Gilmore • Ginsburg • Haltom • Hardy • Henderson • Hobbs • Holschuh • Horton • Howard • Johnson • Keep • Kelly • Kenyon • Kocoras • Marquez • Marshall • Michael • Nixon • Norris • Patel • Polozola • Propst • Quackenbush • Ramsey • Rice • Shadur • Spiegel • Tashima • Thompson • Vela • White • Williams | ||
| 1981 | |||
