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Joanna Seybert

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Joanna Seybert

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (senior status)

Tenure

2014 - Present

Years in position

11

Prior offices

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Education

Joanna Seybert is a federal judge on senior status for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She joined the court in 1993 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. Seybert assumed senior status on January 13, 2014.[1]

Education

Seybert graduated from University of Cincinnati with her bachelor's degree in 1967 and also graduated from St. John`s University School of Law with her J.D. in 1971.[1]

Professional career

  • 1992-1993: Judge, Nassau County Court
  • 1987-1991: Judge, Nassau County District Court
  • 1980-1987: Bureau chief, Nassau County Attorney's Office
  • 1979: Attorney, private practice
  • 1976-1979: Senior staff attorney, Legal Aid Society of Nassau County
  • 1976: Attorney, private practice
  • 1973-1975: Attorney, Federal Defender Services of Legal Aid Society of Brooklyn
  • 1971-1973: Trial attorney, Legal Aid Society of New York City[1]

Judicial career

Eastern District of New York

On the recommendation of New York U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Seybert was nominated by President Bill Clinton on September 24, 1993, to a new seat created by 104 Stat. 5089. Seybert was confirmed by the Senate on November 20, 1993, on a majority voice vote and received commission on November 24, 1993.[2] After twenty years on the bench Seybert assumed senior status in 2014.[1]

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Political offices
Preceded by:
NA 		Eastern District of New York
1993–2014 		Succeeded by:
Joan Azrack

Bill Clinton

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Federal judges nominated by Bill Clinton
1993

Adams • Ambrose • Barnes • Brinkema • Bucklew • Chasanow • Coffman • Daughtrey • Ferguson • Ginsburg • Hagen • Jackson • Lancaster • Leval • Lindsay • Messitte • Michael • Piersol • Saris • Schwartz • Seybert • Shanahan • Shaw • Stearns • Trager • Vazquez • Wilken • Wilson

1994

Baer • Barkett • Batts • Beaty • Benavides • Bennett • Berrigan • Biery • Block • Borman • Breyer • Briones • Bryson • Bucklo • Burgess • Burrage • Cabranes • Calabresi • Carr • Casellas • Castillo • Chatigny • Chin • Cindrich • Coar • Collins • Cooper • Cote • Currie • Davis • Dominguez • Downes • Duval • Friedman • Furgeson • Garcia • Gertner • Gettleman • Gillmor • Gilmore • Gleeson • Haggerty • Hamilton • Hannah • Hawkins • Henry • Holmes • Hood • Hull • Hurley • Jack • Jones • Jones • Kaplan • Katz • Kern • Kessler • Koeltl • Lisi • Manning • McKee • McLaughlin • Melancon • Miles-LaGrange • Moore • Motz • Murphy • O'Malley • O'Meara • Oliver • Paez • B. Parker • F. Parker • R. Parker • Perry • Ponsor • Pooler • Porteous • Rendell • Riley • Robertson • Rogers • Ross • Russell • Sands • Sarokin • Scheindlin • Silver • Squatrito • Stewart • Sullivan • Tatel • Thompson • Timlin • Urbina • Vanaskie • Vance • Walls • Wells • Williams

1995

Arterton • Atlas • Black • Blake • Briscoe • Tena Campbell • Todd Campbell • Chesney • Cole • Collier • Daniel • Davis • Dennis • Dlott • Donald • Duffy • Economus • Evans • Fallon • Folsom • Gaughan • Goodwin • Heartfield • Hunt • Illston • Jones • King • Kornmann • Lawson • Lenard • Lucero • Lynch • McKinley • Moody • Moore • Moskowitz • Murphy • Murtha • Nugent • O'Toole • Orlofsky • Pogue • Sessions • C. Smith • O. Smith • Stein • Thornburg • Tunheim • Wallach • Wardlaw • Webber • Whaley • Winmill •

Wood
1996

Broadwater • Clevert • Fenner • Gershon • Gottschall • Greenaway • Hinkle • Jones • Kahn • Laughrey • Lemmon • Marten • Miller • Molloy • Montgomery • Pregerson • Rakoff • Sargus • Tashima • Thomas • Zapata

1997

Adelman • Bataillon • Breyer • Caputo • Casey • Chambers • Clay • Damrell • Droney • Friedman • Gajarsa • Garland • Gilman • Gold • Gwin • Hall • Hayden • Hull • Ishii • Jenkins • Kauffman • Kennedy • Kimball • Kollar-Kotelly • Lazzara • Marbley • Marcus • Middlebrooks • Miller • Moon • Pratt • Rendell • Sippel • Siragusa • Snyder • Thrash

1998

Aiken • Barbier • Barzilay • Berman • Buttram • Carter • Collins • Dawson • Dimitrouleas • Fletcher • Fogel • Frank • Graber • Hellerstein • Herndon • James • Johnson • Kane • Kelly • G. King • R. King • Lasnik • Lee • Lemelle • Lindsay • Lipez • Manella • Matz • McCuskey • McKeown • McMahon • Mickle • Mollway • Mordue • Moreno • Morrow • Munley • Murphy • Pallmeyer • Pauley • Polster • Pooler • Rawlinson • Ridgway • R. Roberts • V. Roberts • Sack • Scott • Seitz • Seymour • Shea • Silverman • Sleet • Sotomayor • Steeh • Story • Straub • Tagle • Tarnow • Trauger • Traxler • Tyson • Wardlaw • Whelan • Young

1999

Alsup • Barry • Brown • Buchwald • Cooper • Eaton • Ellison • Feess • Fisher • Gould • Guzman • Haynes • Hibbler • Hochberg • Hurd • Huvelle • Jordan • Katzmann • Kennelly • Linn • Lorenz • Lynn • Marrero • Murguia • Pannell • Pechman • Pepper • Phillips • Schreier • Stewart • Underhill • Ward • Williams • Wilson

2000

Ambro • Antoon • Battani • Berzon • Bolton • Brady • Bye • Cavanaugh • Daniels • Darrah • Dawson • Dyk • Fuentes • Garaufis • Garcia-Gregory • Hamilton • Huck • Hunt • Lawson • Lefkow • Lynch • Martin • McLaughlin • Moody • Murguia • Paez • Pisano • Presnell • Rawlinson • Reagan • Schiller • Singal • Steele • Surrick • Swain • Tallman • Teilborg • Tucker • Whittemore

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

Chief Judge: Margo 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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