Valerie E. Caproni
| Valerie E. Caproni | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | |
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Assumed office December 2, 2013 |
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| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Richard J. Holwell |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 13, 1955 Lee County, Alabama |
| Education |
H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College B.A. University of Georgia School of Law J.D. |
Valerie E. Caproni (born August 13, 1955) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Caproni grew up in Rome, Georgia, and attended King High School, graduating in the class of 1973. As a teenaged girl, she also attended the Georgia Governor's Dinner, a Dinner for gifted children.
Caproni received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in psychology from Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1976. She earned her Juris Doctor summa cum laude from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1979. While in law school, she served on the Georgia Law Review, was the winner of the Russell and Talmadge Moot Court competitions and was inducted into Order of the Coif.
Following graduation, Caproni clerked for Judge Phyllis Kravitch, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. In September 1980, she began work as an associate in the litigation department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City.
In 1985, Caproni became an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York. In early 1989, she became General Counsel of the New York State Urban Development Corporation (UDC). In that capacity, she supervised a legal staff of approximately 20 and was involved in many major economic development projects in New York, including the Times Square Redevelopment Project.
Caproni returned to the United States Attorney's Office in 1992 after approximately three years away. She was Chief of Special Prosecutions and Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section before becoming Chief of the Criminal Division in 1994. As Chief of the Criminal Division, she supervised approximately 100 Assistant U.S. Attorneys until she departed in 1998, to become the Regional Director of the Pacific Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) based in San Francisco.
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