Denny Chin

Denny Chin 陳卓光


Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Incumbent
Assumed office April 23, 2010
Appointed by	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Robert Sack
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
In office August 10, 1994 – April 23, 2010
Appointed by	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Seat established
Succeeded by	Paul Oetken
Personal details
Born	Check Kong Chin 1954 (age 62–63) Kowloon, British Hong Kong (now China)
Education	Princeton University (BA) Fordham University (JD)

Denny Chin (Chinese: 陳卓光; pinyin: Chén Zhuóguāng) (born 1954) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York City. He was a judge on the United States district court for the Southern District of New York before joining the federal appeals bench. President Clinton nominated Chin to the district court on March 24, 1994, and Chin was confirmed August 9 of that same year. On October 6, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Chin to the federal appeals court. He was confirmed on April 22, 2010 by the U.S. Senate, filling the vacancy created by Judge Robert D. Sack who assumed senior status. Chin was 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 A.B. 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 as an adjunct professor.