George Cheney Pratt (born May 22, 1928, Corning, New York) was a federal appellate judge in the United States.
Pratt attended Yale University as an undergraduate as well as Yale Law School. After a two-year term clerking for a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Pratt spent two decades, from 1955 to 1976, as a lawyer in private practice in Nassau County, New York.
In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford selected Pratt to serve as a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan elevated Pratt to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Pratt took senior status on the Court of Appeals in 1993. He fully retired from judicial service in 1995.
Judge Pratt began teaching at The Touro Law Center Jacob D. Fuchsberg School of Law in Huntington, New York where he currently is a full-time faculty.
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| Preceded by Anthony J. Travia |
Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York July 17, 1968 – June 29, 1982 |
Succeeded by Leonard D. Wexler |
| Preceded by William Homer Timbers |
Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit June 21, 1982 – May 22, 1993 |
Succeeded by Pierre Nelson Leval |