Raymond Lohier
| Raymond Lohier | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | |
| Title: | Judge |
| Position: | Seat #13 |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Barack Obama |
| Active: | 12/19/2010 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Sonia Sotomayor |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1965 |
| Home State: | Montreal, Canada |
| Bachelors: | Harvard, A.B., 1988 |
| Law School: | New York U., J.D., 1991 |
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Raymond Joseph Lohier, Jr. (b. 1965) is an Article III federal judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was nominated to the court by Barack Obama in 2010. At the time of his appointment, Lohier was an Assistant U.S. Attorney with the Southern District of New York.[1]
Early life and education
Born in Montreal, Canada in 1965, Lohier graduated from Harvard College in 1988 and received his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1991. [2]
Professional career
- Law clerk to Robert Patterson on the Southern District of New York, 1992-1993
- Private practice as an associate attorney with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilon in New York, 1993 - 1997
- Trial attorney, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1997-1998; senior trial attorney, 1998-2000
- Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, 2000-2010
- Chief of the Southern District of New York's Securities and Commodities Fraud Task Force [2]
- Received commission to serve on the Second Circuit on December 20, 2010 [1]
Judicial career
Second Circuit
Lohier was nominated by President Obama on March 10, 2010 to fill a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit vacated by Sonia Sotomayor. [3] Obama said of the nomination, "Raymond Lohier will... bring an unwavering commitment to fairness and judicial integrity to the federal bench." [2] The American Bar Association's substantial majority rated Lohier as "Qualified", a minority rated him as "Not Qualified". [4]
Lohier had a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 22, 2010. The Committee voted to forward his nomination to the full Senate on May 13, 2010. You can find Lohier's Committee Questionnaire available here and his Questions for the Record available here.[5]
Lohier was confirmed by a 92-0 vote on December 19, 2010. [4][1]
Awards and associations
- Recipient of the Vanderbilt Medal from New York University School of Law [2]
See also
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Lohier Biography from the Federal Judicial Center.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 White House Press Release "President Obama Nominates Raymond Lohier, Jr. for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Judge Kate O'Malley for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit", March 10, 2010
- ↑ White House Press Release "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate", March 10, 2010
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Judicial Nomination Materials
- ↑ Blog of Legal Times "2nd Circuit Is Back in Democrats' Hands", December 20, 2010
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Sonia Sotomayor |
Second Circuit 2010–Current Seat #13 |
Succeeded by: NA |
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| 2009 |
Gerard Lynch • David Hamilton • Sonia Sotomayor • Andre Davis • D.P. Marshall • Richard Seeborg • Jeffrey Viken • Charlene Honeywell • Irene Berger • Roberto Lange • Christina Reiss • Dolly Gee • Jacqueline Nguyen • Abdul Kallon • William Conley • Nancy D. Freudenthal • Gloria M. Navarro • Florence Pan • | ||
| 2010 |
Barbara Keenan • Kathleen M. O'Malley • Denny Chin • Leonard Stark • Joseph Greenaway • Thomas Vanaskie • Mark Goldsmith • Elena Kagan • Beverly Martin • Mary Murguia • Ellen Hollander • James Wynn • Jane Magnus-Stinson • Susan Richard Nelson • Audrey Fleissig • Timothy S. Black • James Bredar • Sharon Coleman • Leslie Kobayashi • Kimberly Mueller • Catherine Eagles • Benita Pearson • Jane Stranch • O. Rogeriee Thompson • Rosanna Peterson • Albert Diaz • Brian Jackson • J. Michelle Childs • Richard Mark Gergel • Josephine S. Tucker • Lucy H. Koh • Marisa Demeo • Tanya Walton Pratt • Jon E. DeGuilio • Elizabeth Erny Foote • Marc Thomas Treadwell • Gary Feinerman • William J. Martinez • Scott Matheson • Raymond Lohier • Todd E. Edelman • John A. Gibney • Edmond E. Chang • Carlton W. Reeves • Denise Casper • Robert Leon Wilkins • Beryl A. Howell • Maria Elizabeth Raffinan • | ||
| 2011 |
Sue Myerscough • James Graves • Bernice Donald • Christopher Droney • Claire Cecchi • Esther Salas • Henry Floyd • Morgan Christen • Evan Wallach • Diana Saldaña • Michael Urbanski • Cathy Bissoon • Anthony J. Battaglia • Edward Chen • Sharon L. Gleason • Marco A. Hernandez • Andrew L. Carter, Jr. • Nelva Gonzales Ramos • Timothy M. Cain • Scott W. Skavdahl • John A. Ross • Robert N. Scola, Jr. • John A. Kronstadt • Edward J. Davila • R. Brooke Jackson • James E. Boasberg • James E. Shadid • Steve C. Jones • John McConnell • Amy Totenberg • Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers • Paul K. Holmes • Susan L. Carney • Max O. Cogburn, Jr. • Amy B. Jackson • Jane Triche-Milazzo • Michael H. Simon • Kathleen M. Williams • Marina Marmolejo • Susan Hickey • Mae A. D'Agostino • Jimmie V. Reyna • Robert David Mariani • Ramona V. Manglona • J. Paul Oetken • Arenda L. Wright Allen • Mark Raymond Hornak • Vincent L. Briccetti • Roy Bale Dalton, Jr. • Sara Lynn Darrow • Kevin Hunter Sharp • Paul A. Engelmayer • Wilma Lewis • Nancy Torresen • Alison J. Nathan • Corinne Ann Beckwith • William Kuntz • Nannette Jolivette-Brown • Dana Christensen • Edgardo Ramos • Katherine Forrest • Stephen Higginson • Richard G. Andrews • James Gilstrap • Jennifer Zipps • Ronnie Abrams • Jennifer Di Toro • Yvonne Williams • | ||
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