Rachel P. Kovner

Rachel P. Kovner
Personal details
Born (1979-09-29) September 29, 1979
New York City, New York, U.S.
Relations Bruce Kovner (father)
Education Harvard College, (BA)
Stanford Law School, (JD)

Rachel Peter Kovner (born September 29, 1979)[1] is an American lawyer from New York who is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Education

Kovner earned her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, and her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School, where she graduated first in her class, was inducted into the Order of the Coif, and served as the senior articles editor of the Stanford Law Review.[2]

At the start of her legal career she served as a law clerk to Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and then to Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States.[2]

Prior to her service in the United States Department of Justice she served for four years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where she served as trial counsel in ten felony trials and argued seven appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

She currently serves as an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Solicitor General’s Office within the Department of Justice, where she has represented the United States in litigation before the Supreme Court since 2013.[2]

Nomination to district court

In August 2017 Kovner 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.[3] On May 10, 2018 President Trump announced his intent to nominate Kovner to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. On May 15, 2018, her nomination was sent to the Senate. She was nominated to the seat that was vacated by Judge Carol Bagley Amon, who assumed senior status on November 30, 2016. On August 1, 2018 a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[4] On September 13, 2018 her nomination was reported out of committee by a 21–0 vote.[5] Her nomination is currently pending before the full United States Senate.

References

  1. ↑ MyLife.com profile
  2. 1 2 3 "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" White House, May 10, 2018 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ↑ Tillman, Zoe (August 7, 2017). "The White House Has Pitched A Nominee For Manhattan's Powerful US Attorney Opening". BuzzFeed. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Nominations for August 1, 2018
  5. ↑ Results of Executive Business Meeting – September 13, 2018 Senate Judiciary Committee
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