Lawrence McKenna
| Lawrence McKenna | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #18 |
| Station: | New York, NY |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | George H.W. Bush |
| Active: | 04/30/1990 - 05/23/2002 |
| Senior: | 05/24/2002 - Present |
| Preceded by: | William Conner |
| Succeeded by: | Kevin Castel |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1933 |
| Home State: | New York, NY |
| Bachelors: | Fordham College, A.B., 1956 |
| Law School: | Columbia Law, LL.B., 1959 |
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Lawrence McKenna is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He joined the court in 1990 after being nominated by President George H.W. Bush. McKenna is a judge serving on senior status.
Early life and education
A native New Yorker, McKenna graduated from Fordham College with his Bachelor's Degree in 1956 and later graduated from Columbia Law School with his Law Degree in 1959.
Professional career
McKenna spent his entire pre-judicial legal career as a private practice attorney licensed in New York State from 1959 to 1990.
Judicial career
Southern District of New York
On the recommendation of New York U.S. Senator Al D'Amato, McKenna was nominated by President George HW. Bush on January 24, 1990 replacing William Conner as Conner assumed senior status. McKenna was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 27, 1990 on a Senate vote and received commission on April 30, 1990. [1] McKenna later assumed senior status on May 24, 2002.
See also
External links
- Judge McKenna's Webpage-SDNY
- Judge McKenna's Biography at the Federal Judicial Center
- List of Article III judges of the Southern District of New York
- The Robing Room- Rate Judge Mckenna
References
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: William Conner |
Southern District of New York 1990-2002 |
Succeeded by: Kevin Castel |
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| Active judges |
Chief Judge: Loretta Preska • Kevin Castel • Paul Crotty • George Daniels • Paul Gardephe • Kenneth Karas • John Koeltl • Colleen McMahon • William Pauley • Cathy Seibel • Richard Sullivan • Laura Swain • Andrew L. Carter, Jr. • Nelson S. Roman • Analisa Torres • J. Paul Oetken • Vincent L. Briccetti • Paul A. Engelmayer • Alison J. Nathan • Edgardo Ramos • Katherine Forrest • Jesse Furman • Ronnie Abrams • Lorna Schofield • Katherine Failla | ||
| Senior judges |
Victor Marrero • Kimba Wood • Harold Baer • Deborah Batts • Richard Berman • Naomi Buchwald • Robert Lee Carter • Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum • Denise Cote • Thomas Griesa • Charles Haight • Alvin Hellerstein • Lewis Kaplan • John Keenan • Shirley Kram • Peter Leisure • Lawrence McKenna • Richard Owen • Robert Patterson • Jed Rakoff • Leonard Sand • Shira Scheindlin • Louis Stanton • Sidney Stein • Robert Sweet • Kevin Duffy • Gerard Goettel • | ||
| Magistrate judges | Henry Pitman • Michael Dolinger • Ronald Ellis • Kevin Fox • James Francis • Debra Freeman • Martin Goldberg • Gabriel Gorenstein • Frank Maas • Andrew Peck • Lisa Smith • George Yanthis • Paul Davison • | ||
| Former Article III judges |
Morris Lasker • Denny Chin • William Conner • Richard Holwell • Barbara Jones • Gerard Lynch • Stephen Robinson • John Sprizzo • William Peter Van Ness • Samuel Rossiter Betts • Samuel Blatchford • Sonia Sotomayor • William Gardner Choate • Pierre Leval • Wilfred Feinberg • John Walker • Barrington Parker • Lawrence Pierce • Addison Brown • George Bethune Adams • George Chandler Holt • Charles Merrill Hough • Learned Hand • Julius Marshuetz Mayer • Augustus Noble Hand • John Clark Knox • Martin Thomas Manton • William Bondy • Henry Warren Goddard • Francis Asbury Winslow • Frank Joseph Coleman • Thomas Day Thacher • Alfred Conkling Coxe, Jr. • John Munro Woolsey • George Murray Hulbert • John William Clancy • Vincent Leibell • Samuel Mandelbaum • Edward Conger • Robert Porter Patterson, Sr. • Charles Metzner • Arnold Bauman • Alexander Bicks • Dudley Bonsal • Charles Brieant • John Bright • Vincent Broderick • Frederick Bryan • Francis Caffey • John Cannella • Richard Casey • John Cashin • Kenneth Conboy • Irving Cooper • Thomas Croake • Richard Daronco • Archie Dawson • Edward Dimock • David Edelstein • Marvin Frankel • Louis Freeh • Lee Gagliardi • Murray Gurfein • William Herlands • Irving Kaufman • Samuel Kaufman • Percy Knapp • Richard Levet • Mary Lowe • Lloyd MacMahon • Walter Mansfield • John McGohey • Edward McLean • Harold Medina • Constance Motley • Thomas Murphy • Gregory Noonan • Edmund Palmieri • Milton Pollack • Simon Rifkind • Sylvester Ryan • Allen Schwartz • Abraham Sofaer • Charles Stewart • Sidney Sugarman • Charles Tenney • Harold Tyler • Lawrence Walsh • Robert Ward • Edward Weinfeld • Henry Werker • Inzer Wyatt • John S. Martin • John S. Martin, Jr. • | ||
| Former Chief judges |
Kimba Wood • Andrew Peck • Lisa Smith • John Clark Knox • William Bondy • John William Clancy • Charles Brieant • David Edelstein • Lloyd MacMahon • Constance Motley • Sylvester Ryan • Sidney Sugarman • | ||
