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Rachel P. Kovner is an American lawyer from New York and is an announced nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Education
Kovner earned her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, and her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School, where she graduated first in her class, was inducted into the Order of the Coif, and served as the senior articles editor of the Stanford Law Review.[1]
Legal career
At the start of her legal career she served as a law clerk to Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and then to the late Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States.[1]
Prior to her service in the United States Department of Justice she served for four years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where she served as trial counsel in ten felony trials and argued seven appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
She currently serves as an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Solicitor General’s Office within the Department of Justice, where she has represented the United States in litigation before the Supreme Court since 2013.[1]
Intent to nominate to district court
In August 2017 Kovner was one of several candidates pitched to New York senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand by the White House as judicial candidates for vacancies on the federal courts in New York.[2] On May 10, 2018 President Trump announced his intent to nominate Kovner to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
References
- ^ a b c "President Donald J. Trump Announces Fourteenth Wave of Judicial Nominees, Thirteenth Wave of United States Attorney Nominees, and Eighth Wave of United States Marshal Nominees" White House, May 10, 2018
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Tillman, Zoe (August 7, 2017). "The White House Has Pitched A Nominee For Manhattan's Powerful US Attorney Opening". BuzzFeed. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
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