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ASIAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CONGRATULATES HON. DIANE GUJARATI ON HER CONFIRMATION AS THE FIRST SOUTH ASIAN ARTICLE III JUDGE IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK — September 11, 2020. The Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY) proudly announces that its former Board Director, the Honorable Diane Gujarati, has been confirmed as the first South Asian Article III Judge in New York. South Asians are significantly under-represented in the Federal judiciary, including in New York. Upon her confirmation, Judge Gujarati will become the first Indian American to serve as an Article III federal judge in New York. She will serve as a United States District Judge in the Eastern District of New York. Judge Gujarati, whose father emigrated from India, was born in and, apart from law school, has lived in New York State her entire life. After receiving her B.A., summa cum laude in Economics from Barnard College of , she received her J.D. in 1995 from Yale Law School, where she served as an editor of both the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal on Regulation. She began her legal career by serving as a law clerk to the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Judge Gujarati then entered private practice, spending approximately three years at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, where she was an associate in the Litigation Department and worked on two trials before an Administrative Law Judge at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In 1999, Judge Gujarati left Davis Polk to start an impressive career dedicated to public service. That year, she became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Southern District of New York, United States Attorney’s Office, where she tried thirteen cases that went to verdict in a broad range of areas. She then became a Deputy Chief of the Appeals Unit in the Criminal Division in 2006. In December 2008, she became the Deputy Chief of the White Plains Division and then became Chief of that division in April 2010. Additionally, she has taught as an Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law. In 2012, Judge Gujarati became the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York, where she served until her confirmation. Throughout her tenure at the United States Attorney’s Office, she received several awards and recognitions and has worked on a range of criminal prosecutions and appellate matters including economic, violent, narcotics, trafficking, and exploitation crimes. “AABANY congratulates Judge Gujarati on her confirmation to serve as a United States District Judge in the Eastern District of New York,” states AABANY President Sapna Palla. “As the first South Asian Article III federal judge in New York, Judge Gujarati is a true trailblazer and role model in our community. Having served on the AABANY Board with her for many years, I am confident that Judge Gujarati will continue to lead and inspire with her professionalism, intelligence, knowledge and dedication to public service. We are proud to have supported our former Board Director and AABANY leader as she ascended to the judiciary, and we enthusiastically look forward to her continuing to make positive contributions to society and to the legal profession as a United States District Judge in the Eastern District of New York.” For more information, please contact Yang Chen, AABANY Executive Director, at (646) 653- 2168, or direct any inquiries to [email protected] ### Additional information about AABANY is available at www.aabany.org Follow our blog at www.blog.aabany.org Follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/aabany Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/aabany