Trump renominates NRI Diane Gujarati for judgeship

April 09, 2019

President Donald J. Trump has re-nominated NRI Diane Gujarati as a judge of the federal court for Eastern New York that has jurisdiction over parts of New York City and Long Island.

Gujarati is now the deputy chief of the criminal division of the federal prosecutor's office for Southern New York that has jurisdiction over Manhattan.

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NRI Diane Gujarati Nominated To serve as a District Judge By Trump

• She will serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

May 10, 2018

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.

If confirmed, Diane Gujarati of New York will serve as a District Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.  Diane Gujarati serves as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she has served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the past nineteen years.

Failed nomination to district court under Obama--President Barack Obama on Sept. 13, 2016, nominated Diane Gujarati to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.to the seat vacated by Judge John Gleeson, who resigned on March 9, 2016. Her nomination expired on January 3, 2017, with the end of the 114th Congress.Gujarati would have been the first Article III judge of South-Asian descent in New York

• 1990-1995. Gujarati received her Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1990 and her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1995.
• She began her legal career as a law clerk at the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1995 to 1996
• 1996 to 1999, Gujarati was an associate in the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
• 2006 to 2008, Gujarati was Deputy Chief of the Appeals Unit in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
• Prior to her tenure as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, from 2008 to 2012, she served as Deputy Chief and then Chief of the White Plains Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
• Since 2012 she has been the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and she has served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division since 1999
• In August 2017 Gujarati 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

iDiane Gujarati also serves on the Board of Directors for the Asian American Bar Association of New York. She has been a member of AABANY since 2013 and has volunteered on its women and judiciary committees.

Her father Damodar M. Gujarati was a a professor of economics at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He received his M.Com degree from the University of Bombay in 1960, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1965. Her mother is Ruth Pincus Gujarati.

OCT. 29, 2000: Diane Gujarati, 31, is married to Charles Frederic Chesnut, the son of Joan Chesnut of Hockessin, Del., and the late Thomas F. Chesnut. Judge John M. Walker Jr., the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New Haven, is to officiate at Tappan Hill in Tarrytown. The bridegroom, 37, designs and builds Web sites for I.B.M., in Manhattan.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/29/style/weddings-diane-gujarati-charles-chesnut

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Diane Gujarati

• Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law
• Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

Education

• JD, Yale Law School, 1995
• BA (Economics), Barnard College of Columbia University, 1990

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