Raymond Lohier
| Raymond Joseph Lohier Jr. | |
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | |
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Assumed office December 20, 2010 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Sonia Sotomayor |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Raymond Joseph Lohier Jr. December 1, 1965 Montreal, Canada |
| Residence | Brooklyn, New York |
| Education |
Harvard University (A.B.) New York University School of Law (J.D.) |
Raymond Joseph Lohier Jr. (born December 1, 1965) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and formerly an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He was the chief of the securities and commodities fraud task force in the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney's office. He was recommended by Sen. Charles Schumer for the nomination to the seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that was vacated by Sonia Sotomayor when she was elevated to the Supreme Court of the United States. Lohier is the first Haitian American to serve as an Article III Federal Judge and to be confirmed (unanimously) by the United States Senate as a Judge for the Second Circuit in New York.
Lohier Jr. was born in Montreal, Canada, of Haitian heritage. He graduated from Friends' Central School in Philadelphia in 1984. From Friends' Central he went on to earn an Artium Baccalaureus degree cum laude from Harvard College and then earned a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law, where he served as Editor in Chief of the NYU Annual Survey of American Law. He worked as a law clerk for Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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