Stefan R. Underhill

Stefan R. Underhill (born 1956) is a Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Born in Battle Creek, Michigan in 1956, after earning a B.A. in 1978 from the University of Virginia and a B.A. from Oxford University, he received a J.D. from Yale Law School, after which he clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He was nominated by U.S. President Bill Clinton to fill a seat on the court vacated by Peter C. Dorsey on January 26, 1999 and was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 30, 1999. He received his commission on July 7, 1999.

In a decision that received great notoriety, Judge Underhill ruled in 2010 that cheerleading could not be used by Quinnipiac University to replace women's volleyball as a female sport to satisfy Title IX requirements (Biediger, et al., v. Quinnipiac University).^[1]^[2]

Judge Underhill teaches a course on Federal Courts as an adjunct professor at University of Connecticut School of Law, and a course on Federal Sentencing at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Sources

Stefan R. Underhill at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

Currently active district judges of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Connecticut	Hall Chatigny Thompson Underhill Bryant Shea Meyer Bolden

E. New York	Amon Gleeson Irizarry Bianco Vitaliano Cogan Mauskopf Matsumoto Kuntz Brodie Chen Azrack 3 seats vacant

N. New York	Sharpe Hurd Suddaby D'Agostino Sannes

S. New York	Preska Koeltl McMahon Pauley Daniels Swain Castel Karas Crotty Sullivan Seibel Gardephe Briccetti Oetken Engelmayer Forrest Nathan Ramos Carter Furman Abrams Schofield Failla Torres Roman Broderick Woods Caproni

W. New York	Geraci Wolford 2 seats vacant

Vermont	Reiss Crawford