Saritha Komatireddy
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Saritha Komatireddy is an American lawyer and Deputy Chief of General Crimes in the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York who is a former nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Education[]
Komatireddy earned her Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, from Harvard University, and her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she also served on the Harvard Law Review.[1]
She graduated from Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri, where she was a Presidential scholar[2][3]
Legal and academic career[]
Upon graduating law school, Komatireddy served as a law clerk to then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She served as counsel to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. She also worked for the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District New York as the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Coordinator and later as Deputy Chief of General Crimes. She was in private practice at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, PLLC. She is currently a lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School and previously taught at George Washington University Law School.[1]
Expired nomination to district court[]
On February 12, 2020, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Komatireddy to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. On May 4, 2020, her nomination was sent to the Senate. President Trump nominated Komatireddy to the seat vacated by Judge Joseph F. Bianco, who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on May 17, 2019.[4] On January 3, 2021, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate.[5]
References[]
- ^ a b "President Donald J. Trump Announces Judicial Nominees and United States Marshal Nominee". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 2020-02-12 – via National Archives.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ HHS History https://www.cpsk12.org/cms/lib/MO01909752/Centricity/domain/19/docs%201617/HHS_History.pdf
- ^ https://www.kewpie.net/Class18/CommencementProgram2018.pdf Hickman High School 2001 commencement program
- ^ "Thirty Nominations and One Withdrawal Sent to the Senate", The White House, May 4, 2020
- ^ "PN1743 - Nomination of Saritha Komatireddy for The Judiciary, 116th Congress (2019-2020)". www.congress.gov. 2021-01-03. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
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