Professor John Q. Barrett, assisted by Barbara Gellis Traub, former Head of Reference & Instructional Services at St. John’s Rittenberg Law Library, helped draft and edit biographical information on the 154 Federal Judges who have served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and its predecessor, the U.S. District Court for the District of New York, from 1789 to the present. The Court was the nation’s first federal court and thus is nicknamed the “Mother Court.”
The judicial biographical entries are part of voluminous historical information that was distributed on thumb drives to guests at the Court’s 225th anniversary special session on November 4, 2014. This information soon will be available on the Court’s website.
The Court’s 225th anniversary will be celebrated throughout the next year, including in a series of public events and programs.
U.S. District Judges Deborah A. Batts and P. Kevin Castel ’75, Co-Chairs of the Southern District’s 225th anniversary celebration, recruited Barrett and Traub to assist with the biographies project.
John Barrett
Barbara Gellis Traub
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