Denny Chin (Chinese: 陳卓光) is a judge on the United States district court for the Southern District of New York. Chin was nominated by President Clinton on March 24, 1994, and confirmed August 9 of that same year. On October 6, 2009, Chin was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, if confirmed by the US Senate, he would fill the vacancy created by Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who was elevated to the Supreme Court. Chin i...
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Denny Chin (Chinese: 陳卓光) is a judge on the United States district court for the Southern District of New York. Chin was nominated by President Clinton on March 24, 1994, and confirmed August 9 of that same year. On October 6, 2009, Chin was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, if confirmed by the US Senate, he would fill the vacancy created by Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who was elevated to the Supreme Court. Chin is the first Asian American appointed as a U.S. District Judge outside of the Ninth Circuit.
Chin was born in 1954 in Kowloon, Hong Kong and came to the U.S. in 1956. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1971. He received his Bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Princeton University in 1975. In 1978, Chin graduated from Fordham University School of Law, where he was the Managing Editor of the Fordham Law Review. Chin currently teaches first year Legal Writing at Fordham. Following a 1978-1980 clerkship with the Hon. Henry Werker in...
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