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David Trager

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David Trager

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Prior offices

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York


Education

Personal

David G. Trager was a federal judge with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He joined the court in 1993 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. He died on January 5, 2011 at the age of 73.[1]

Early life and education

Born in Mount Vernon, New York, Trager received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1959, and his bachelor's of Laws degree (LL.B) from Harvard Law School in 1962.[2]

Professional career

Trager began his legal career in 1963 as a private practice attorney in New York City, New York before serving as the Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York from 1967 to 1968. Trager was a law clerk for the Hon. Kenneth B. Keating of the New York State Court of Appeals until 1969, and a law clerk for the Hon. Stanley H. Fuld, Chief Judge, of the New York State Court of Appeals until 1970. Trager served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in the U.S. Attorney's Office from 1970 to 1972 and returned to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York as the U.S. Attorney from 1974 to 1978. Trager was an Associate Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School from 1972 to 1974 and again from 1978 to 1993, serving as the Dean of the Brooklyn Law School from 1983 to 1993. While serving as a Member on the New York City Mayor's Committee on the Judiciary from 1981 to 1989, Trager was appointed Chairman of the Temporary State Commission on Investigations for New York State from 1983 to 1990.[2]

Judicial nominations and appointments

Eastern District of New York

Trager was nominated to serve on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York by President Bill Clinton on August 6, 1993, to a new seat created by 104 Stat. 5089, which was approved by Congress. Trager was confirmed by the Senate on November 20, 1993, and received commission on November 24, 1993.[3] Trager was succeeded in this position by Roslynn Mauskopf.

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Political offices
Preceded by:
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Eastern District of New York
1993–2006
Succeeded by:
Roslynn Mauskopf

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Federal judges who have served the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Active judges

Chief JudgeMargo Brodie   •  Roslynn Mauskopf  •  Ramon Reyes, Jr.  •  Ann M. Donnelly  •  Pamela Ki Mai Chen  •  Gary R. Brown  •  LaShann Moutique DeArcy Hall  •  Diane Gujarati  •  Eric Komitee  •  Rachel Kovner  •  Sanket Bulsara  •  Hector Gonzalez (New York)  •  Nina Morrison  •  Nusrat Choudhury  •  Natasha Merle  •  Orelia Merchant

Senior judges

Raymond Dearie  •  Leo Glasser  •  Denis Hurley  •  Edward Korman  •  Carol Amon  •  Brian Cogan  •  Nicholas Garaufis  •  Nina Gershon  •  Dora Irizarry  •  Kiyo Matsumoto  •  Allyne Ross  •  Joanna Seybert  •  Eric Vitaliano  •  Joan Azrack  •  Frederic Block  •  William Kuntz  •  

Magistrate judges Lois Bloom  •  Arlene Lindsay  •  Roanne Mann  •  Cheryl Pollak  •  Ramon Reyes, Jr.  •  Vera Scanlon  •  Steven Locke  •  Peggy Kuo  •  Steven Tiscione  •  Anne Shields  •  James Wicks  •  James R. Cho  •  Taryn A. Merkl  •  Marcia Henry  •  
Former Article III judges

Sterling Johnson  •  Thomas Platt  •  Charles Sifton  •  Arthur Spatt  •  David Trager  •  Jack Weinstein  •  Leonard Wexler  •  Joseph Bianco  •  Sandra Feuerstein  •  John Gleeson  •  Sandra Townes  •  Frank Altimari  •  Charles Linnaeus Benedict  •  Joseph McLaughlin (Second Circuit)  •  Reena Raggi  •  George Pratt  •  Asa Wentworth Tenney  •  Edward Beers Thomas  •  Thomas Chatfield  •  Van Vechten Veeder  •  Edwin Louis Garvin  •  Marcus Beach Campbell  •  Robert Alexander Inch  •  Grover Moscowitz  •  Mortimer Byers  •  Clarence Galston  •  Matthew Abruzzo  •  John Bartels  •  Frederic Block  •  Henry Bramwell  •  Walter Bruchhausen  •  Mark Costantino  •  John Dooling  •  Orrin Judd  •  Jacob Mishler  •  Edward Neaher  •  Eugene Nickerson  •  Leo Rayfiel  •  George Rosling  •  Anthony Travia  •  Joseph Zavatt  •  Harold Kennedy (New York)  •  

Former Chief judges

Raymond Dearie  •  Edward Korman  •  Thomas Platt  •  Charles Sifton  •  Jack Weinstein  •  Carol Amon  •  Dora Irizarry  •  Roslynn Mauskopf  •  Robert Alexander Inch  •  Walter Bruchhausen  •  Jacob Mishler  •  Joseph Zavatt  •  

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Federal judges nominated by Bill Clinton
1993

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1994

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1995

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1996

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1997

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1998

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1999

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2000

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