Shira Scheindlin
| Shira Scheindlin | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Station: | New York, NY |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Bill Clinton |
| Active: | 09/29/2004-8/16/2011 |
| Senior: | 8/16/2011-Current |
| Preceded by: | Louis Freeh |
| Succeeded by: | Lorna Schofield |
| Past post: | Eastern District of New York, Magistrate Judge |
| Past term: | 1982 - 1986 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1946 |
| Home State: | Washington, D.C. |
| Bachelors: | U. of Michigan, B.A., 1967 |
| Law School: | Cornell Law, J.D., 1975 |
| Grad. School: | Columbia U., M.A., 1969 |
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Shira A. Scheindlin is a federal judge serving on senior status for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She joined the court in 1994 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. Prior to her appointment to the federal bench, Scheindlin was in private practice in New York City from 1990 to 1994. She assumed senior status on August 16, 2011.[1]
Early life and education
Born in Washington, D.C., Scheindlin graduated from Michigan with her Bachelor's degree in 1967 and later from Columbia-New York with her Master's degree in 1969. Scheindlin obtained her J.D. degree from Cornell Law in 1975.[1]
Professional career
- Private practice, New York City, 1990-1994
- Private practice, Short Hills, New Jersey, 1986-1990
- Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn Law School, 1983-1994
- General Counsel, New York City Department of Investigation, 1981-1982
- Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of New York, 1977-1981
- Law clerk, Hon. Charles Brieant, Southern District of New York, 1976-1977
- Private practice, New York City, 1975-1976 [1]
Judicial career
Southern District of New York, Magistrate
Scheindlin was a federal magistrate judge for the Eastern District of New York from 1982 to 1986. [1]
Southern District of New York
On the recommendation of U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Scheindlin was nominated to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by President Bill Clinton on July 28, 1994, to a seat vacated by Louis Freeh. Scheindlin was confirmed by the Senate on September 28, 1994, on a majority vote and received commission on September 29, 1994.[2] She assumed senior status on August 16, 2011.
Notable cases
Banks artificially inflate tech bubble IPO
| United States District Court for the Southern District of New York *In Re: Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation 21 MC 92 (SAS) |
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| Judge Scheindlin presided in a class-action lawsuit over 309 cases in which shareholders of tech stocks accused underwriters of artificially inflating the value of stock in technology companies that went public in the 1990's. The judge approved a settlement of $586 million. The defendants include, among others, Credit Suisse First Boston Corp., The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., and Salomon Smith Barney, Inc. The tech burst happened in 2000 after many technology-laden stocks crashed after evidence found that stock brokers issued false information that mislead investors.[3] |
See also
External links
- List of Article III judges of the Southern District of New York
- ABCNews.com, "NY 'Frisk' judge calls criticism 'Below-the-belt'," May 19, 2013
- The Village Voice, "City used memo leak to drag stop-and-frisk judge through the mud, lawyers say," May 16, 2013
- The New York Times, "A court rule directs cases over friskings to one judge", May 5, 2013
References
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Louis Freeh |
Southern District of New York 2004–2011 |
Succeeded by: Lorna Schofield |
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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 • | ||
