José A. Cabranes
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| Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review | |
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Assumed office August 9, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Morris Arnold |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | |
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Assumed office August 10, 1994 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Richard Cardamone |
| Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut | |
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In office September 1, 1992 – August 10, 1994 |
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| Preceded by | Ellen Burns |
| Succeeded by | Peter Dorsey |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut | |
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In office December 10, 1979 – August 10, 1994 |
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| Appointed by | Jimmy Carter |
| Preceded by | Jon Newman |
| Succeeded by | Janet Arterton |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
José Alberto Cabranes December 22, 1940 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, U.S. |
| Education |
Columbia University (BA) Yale University (JD) Queens' College, Cambridge (MLitt) |
José Alberto Cabranes (born December 22, 1940) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a member of the three-judge United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ("FISCR"). Formerly a practicing lawyer, government official, and law teacher, he was the first Puerto Rican appointed to a federal judgeship in the continental United States (1979).
Cabranes was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico into a family of educators; both his mother and father were school teachers. Both parents were educated in Puerto Rico's public schools and at the then newly founded University of Puerto Rico in the first decades of the 20th century, part of the first generation of Puerto Ricans educated under the American flag after Spain's transfer of the island to the United States following the Spanish–American War (1898).
José Cabranes graduated from Flushing High School in 1957 and earned a bachelor of arts degree in History from Columbia College in 1961. Between college and law school at Yale, he taught History of Puerto Rico and History of the United States at the Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, in Rio Piedras, PR. He earned his law degree from Yale in 1965 and was awarded a Kellett Research Fellowship from Columbia College and the Humanitarian Trust Studentship in Public International Law from the Faculty Board of Law of the University of Cambridge to study international law at Queens' College, University of Cambridge. In 1967, he earned his M.Litt. (Masters of Letters) in International Law, and returned to New York city to practice law.
Cabranes was an associate in the New York City law firm of Casey, Lane & Mittendorf (now dissolved) from 1967 to 1971, and became avocationally active in public affairs and the civic life of the Puerto Rican community of New York. In the early 1970s he served as a trustee of the Hudson Guild settlement house, in the Chelsea area of Manhattan, and as a director of Citizens Union, a “good government” civic group first organized in the early 20th century. In 1971 he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of ASPIRA of New York, an organization that helps inner-city Hispanic youth prepare for higher education, and he was a founding member of the board of directors of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, of which he was later (1975–1980) Chairman.
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