Jed S. Rakoff
| Jed Saul Rakoff | |
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| Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
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Assumed office December 31, 2010 |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
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In office March 1, 1996 – December 31, 2010 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | David N. Edelstein |
| Succeeded by | Katherine B. Forrest |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Jed Saul Rakoff August 1, 1943 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Education |
Swarthmore College B.A. Oxford University M.Phil. Harvard Law School J.D. |
Jed Saul Rakoff (born August 1, 1943) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Rakoff was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on August 1, 1943. He grew up in the Germantown section of Philadelphia and attended Central High School of Philadelphia. Rakoff graduated with honors in English literature from Swarthmore College (Bachelor of Arts 1964), where he was President of the Student Body, earned his Master of Philosophy from Balliol College at Oxford University (1966), and received a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School (1969), where he was a member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. He has received honorary degrees from Saint Francis University and from Swarthmore.
After serving as law clerk to Judge Abraham Freedman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Rakoff spent two years in private practice at Debevoise & Plimpton before spending seven years as a federal prosecutor with the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. For the last two of those years, he was Chief of the Business and Securities Fraud Prosecutions Unit. He then returned to private practice where he was a partner first with Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Ferdon, and then with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. He headed both firms' criminal defense and civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) sections.
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