Gary Richard Brown

Gary Richard Brown (born 1963) is a United States Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and is a former nominee to be a United States District Judge of the same court.

Biography

Judge Brown received his Bachelor of Arts cum laude from Columbia College in 1985 and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1988. Judge Brown began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Jacob Mishler of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 1988 to 1989. From 1989 to 1996, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division, where he also served as Affirmative Litigation Coordinator from 1994 to 1996. From 1996 to 2005, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Long Island Criminal Division at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he was elevated to Deputy Chief in 2001 and Chief in 2003. From 2005 to 2011, Judge Brown worked at CA Technologies as Senior Counsel, Associate General Counsel and Director for Litigation, and then Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Counsel of Litigation. Since 2011, Brown has been a United States Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.^[1]

Nomination to district court

On July 30, 2015, President Obama nominated Brown to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, to the seat vacated by Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein, who assumed senior status on January 21, 2015.^[2] He received a hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on October 21, 2015.^[3] On November 5, 2015 his nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.^[4] His nomination expired on January 3, 2017, at the end of the 114th Congress.

See also

• Barack Obama judicial appointment controversies

References