Margaret Garnett

Margaret Garnett
Margaret Garnett
Personal details
Education	University of Notre Dame (BA); Yale University (MA, MPhil); Columbia University (JD);

Margaret Garnett is an American lawyer from New York who is a nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Education

Garnett received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame in 1992, a Master of Arts in 1995 and a Master of Philosophy in 1997, both from Yale University and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 2000.^[1]

Career

After graduating law school, Garnett started her career as an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City from 2000 to 2004. From 2004 to 2005, she was a law clerk for Judge Gerard E. Lynch of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. From 2005 to 2017, Garnett was an assistant United States attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which included service as Chief of Appeals from 2016 to 2017 and Chief of the Violent Crimes/Violent and Organized Crime Unit from 2011 to 2014. From 2018 to 2021, she was commissioner of the New York City Department of Investigation and from 2017 to 2018, she served as Executive Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice in the New York State Attorney General's Office. From 2021 to May 2023, she was the deputy United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.^[1] Since May 2023, she has served as Special Counsel to the United States attorney in that same district.^[1]^[2]^[3]

In 2012, Garnett was instrumental in exonerating five people wrongly convicted of murdering a cab driver in 1995.^[4]^[5]

Nomination to district court

Garnett was recommended to the White House by Senator Chuck Schumer.^[3] On June 28, 2023, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Garnett to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.^[1]

Personal life

Garnett lives in Brooklyn with her two children and her husband, Seth, a script supervisor for TV and film. Garnett’s is the granddaughter of two generals and her father was an Army officer.^[4]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 "President Biden Names Thirty-Fifth Round of Judicial Nominees and One New Nominee to Serve as U.S. Attorney" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. June 28, 2023. Retrieved June 28, 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
↑ "U.S. Attorney Damian Williams Announces The Selection Of Deputy U.S. Attorney And Special Counsel" (Press release). United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. May 18, 2023. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Wester, Jane (May 18, 2023). "SDNY Deputy US Attorney Moves to Special Counsel Role While Biden Considers Her for Judgeship". New York Law Journal. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 "Margaret Garnett '00: The Gift of Doing What's Right". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
↑ Weiser, Benjamin; Rashbaum, William K. (August 3, 2012). "Garnett was instrumental in exonerating five people". The New York Times.

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[WHBio-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 "President Biden Names Thirty-Fifth Round of Judicial Nominees and One New Nominee to Serve as U.S. Attorney" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. June 28, 2023. Retrieved June 28, 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

[2] "U.S. Attorney Damian Williams Announces The Selection Of Deputy U.S. Attorney And Special Counsel" (Press release). United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. May 18, 2023. Retrieved June 28, 2023.

[NYLJ-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Wester, Jane (May 18, 2023). "SDNY Deputy US Attorney Moves to Special Counsel Role While Biden Considers Her for Judgeship". New York Law Journal. Retrieved June 28, 2023.

[Columbia-4] 4.0 ^4.1 "Margaret Garnett '00: The Gift of Doing What's Right". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved June 28, 2023.

[ABC-5] Weiser, Benjamin; Rashbaum, William K. (August 3, 2012). "Garnett was instrumental in exonerating five people". The New York Times.

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