Reena Raggi
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| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | |
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Assumed office October 4, 2002 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Amalya Lyle Kearse |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York | |
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In office May 7, 1987 – October 4, 2002 |
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| Appointed by | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Frank X. Altimari |
| Succeeded by | Dora Irizarry |
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May 11, 1951 Jersey City, New Jersey |
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Wellesley College B.A. Harvard Law School J.D. |
Reena Raggi (born May 11, 1951 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and maintains her chambers in Brooklyn, New York. She was formerly a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Raggi earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Wellesley College in 1973, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She later earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where she served as a member of the Board of Student Advisers, graduating cum laude in 1976. Following her graduation from law school in 1976, she served for a year as a law clerk for Judge Thomas E. Fairchild of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
She was admitted to the bar in New York, and joined the Manhattan law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel until her appointment as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in 1979, serving in that capacity until her appointment in 1986 as Interim U.S. Attorney. Later that year, she returned to private law practice at the New York law firm of Windels, Marx, Davies, and Ives.
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