Alison Nathan

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Alison Julie Nathan (born June 18, 1972) is an American lawyer who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since 2022. She served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2011 to 2022. She previously served as associate White House counsel for President Barack Obama .

Contents

• 1 Early life and education

• 2 Career

• 3 Federal judicial service

  • 3.1 District court service

    • 3.1.1 Notable cases

  • 3.2 Court of appeals service

• 4 Personal life

• 5 See also

• 6 References

• 7 External links

Early life and education

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Nathan was born on June 18, 1972, in Philadelphia . Nathan was raised in northwest suburban Philadelphia. While at university, Nathan studied philosophy and Japanese .

Nathan earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1994 from Cornell University , where she was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. She taught English in Japan from 1994 to 1995, then was an editor of an English-language newspaper in Bangkok from 1995 to 1996. She later attended Cornell Law School , where she was editor-in-chief of the _Cornell Law Review _. She graduated in 2000 with a Juris Doctor , magna cum laude.

In a _New York Times _ obituary of Judge Deborah Batts , Nathan remembered Batts as an inspiration. Nathan also wrote in a tribute to Justice John Paul Stevens that "When I review work from my law clerks, I will often leave a supportive note like the ones he left me and my co-clerks: 'Nice job. Just a few fly specks.'"

Career

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From 2000 until 2001, Nathan served as a law clerk for Ninth Circuit judge Betty Binns Fletcher . From 2001 until 2002, Nathan served as a law clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens of the United States Supreme Court .

From 2002 until 2006, Nathan served as an associate in the New York and Washington, D.C. offices of the law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr .

During the 2004 presidential campaign season , she was John Kerry 's associate national counsel on the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign . From 2006 until 2008, Nathan served as a visiting associate professor of law at Fordham University School of Law . Nathan was also a Fritz Alexander fellow at the New York University School of Law from 2008 until 2009.

As an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at NYU, her academic focus was on "civil procedure, federal courts, habeas , and the constitutionality of the United States death penalty system".

From 2009 until 2010, Nathan served as special assistant to the president and associate White House counsel in the Barack Obama administration . From 2010 until her appointment as a United States district judge , Nathan worked in the New York State Attorney General 's Office as a special counsel to the state's Solicitor General , Barbara Underwood .

In 2016, Nathan was a guest judge for Harvard Law School 's Ames Moot Court Competition .

Federal judicial service

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District court service

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President Barack Obama greets his departing Associate Counsel Alison Nathan (left), Meg Satterthwaite, and their twin sons in the Outer Oval Office, July 7, 2010.

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