Joan Azrack
Joan Azrack | |
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Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
| In office 1990 – December 19, 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Joan Marie Azrack August 13, 1951 Neptune Township, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Education | Rutgers University (BS) New York Law School (JD) |
Joan Marie Azrack (born August 13, 1951) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She is a former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Biography
Azrack was born in 1951, in Neptune Township, New Jersey.[1] She received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1974 from Rutgers University. She received a Juris Doctor in 1979 from New York Law School. She began her career as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1979 to 1981. From 1982 to 1990, she was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, where she served as Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Section from 1985 to 1986 and as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division and Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Section from 1986 to 1990. From 1988 to 1991, Azrack was a visiting instructor at Harvard Law School.[2][3][4]
Federal judicial service
From 1990 to 2014 she served as a United States magistrate judge in the Eastern District and as chief United States magistrate judge from 2000 to 2005.[3][4][5]
On September 18, 2014, President
References
- ^ "Senate Judiciary Committee Nomination Questionnaire" (PDF).
- ^ "Profiles - Joan Azrack". New York Law Journal.
- ^ National Archives.
- ^ a b c Joan Azrack at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- ^ "Joan M. Azrack". United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Archived from the original on April 21, 2011. Retrieved December 14, 2010.
- National Archives.
- ^ "United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary". www.judiciary.senate.gov.
- ^ "Results of Executive Business Meeting – December 11, 2014" (PDF).
External links
- Joan Azrack at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- Joan Azrack at Ballotpedia