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Prominent Indians in The U.S Judiciary

 

 

The Indian American community is one of the largest communities that live in the U.S, the reason being the massive amount of opportunities that the country provides to various immigrant groups irrespective of class, colour, race and other such societal distinctions. There have been several success stories of Indians in the U.S. Here are 7 Indian Americans who have made it large in America's judicial system as reported by Ishani Duttagupta of Economic Times.

1.Srikanth Srinivasan

Srikanth was born in Chandigarh and graduated from Lawrence high school in Lawrence. In 1989 he earned a Bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a J.D/M.B.A in 1995 from Stanford law school and Stanford Graduate School of business. During initial stages of his career he worked as a law clerk for United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III and then was a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Before serving as the Principal Deputy Solicitor General for the United States he spent close to two decade being an extraordinary Litigator. Srikanth has been appointed as a judge in the highly acclaimed U.S court of appeals in Washington DC. It is the highest appointment for an Indian American made in the U.S judiciary. Srikanth is the first south Asian American to serve as a circuit court judge with distinction in the U.S history.

 

 

 

 

Preet Bharara

Born in Punjab, Bharara graduated from Harvard College and Columbia Law School. He is currently serving as the U.S attorney for the Southern district of New York. In 2012 Bharara was featured on the cover page of Times magazine as one among "The 100 Most Influential People in The World". Under his supervision the judiciary was involved in the high profile prosecution of insider trading and other financial fraud on Wall Street including a detailed investigation made against Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam and former McKinsey chief Rajat Gupta. Due to this he was featured in Time magazine's cover story entitled "This man is bustling Wall Street". His name was also included in Vanity fairs "New establishment" list and Bloomberg markets magazines "50 most influential" list. He previously served as the chief counsel to Senator Chuck Schumer and also played a significant role in U.S Senate committee during the judicial investigations into the firings of the U.S attorneys.

 

 

 

 

Neal Katyal

 

Neal Katyal is a graduate from Dartmouth College and Yale Law School. He has served as an Acting Solicitor General of the United States from May 2010 until June 2011.
Katyal is currently in charge of running the appellate practice at the law firm Hogan Lovells and is also involved in teaching at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he tenured as one of the youngest professors in the university's history. Katyal also has the experience in serving as counsel or co-counsel for numerous US Supreme Court cases. The once acting solicitor General succeeded Elena Kegan who was Obama's choice to replace the retiring associate U.S Supreme court justice John Paul Stevens. He has previously served as National security adviser from 1997-1999 and was working closely with the Bill Clinton government in preparing a report on more legal pro-bono work. He was named " Lawyer of The Year" by Lawyers U.S.A in 2006.

 

 

 

Amit Mehta

 

Amit Mehta got a B.A from Georgetown University in 1993 and a J.D in 1997 from University of Virginia School of Law. Mehta is a lawyer of Indian origin who also partners with Washington Law firm Zuckerman Spaeder. He has also played significant roles in several big cases including the dismissal of criminal charges against the former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a New York state court. At the age of 39, Mehta is also a board member of the Mid Atlantic Innocense project which dealswith reversing or preventing any wrongful convictions in D.C, Maryland and Virginia. He also served as the former IMF chief in a criminal assault case, former president of the Salt Lake City Olympic committee, former member of congress in grand jury investigation, involved in an antitrust action against a race course, antitrust internal investigation into a public company, investigations on several illegal international sanctions from China and Sudan and lastly the firm he partnered with acted as the CFO in FCPA and SEC investigations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amandeep Sidhu

Amandeep has a J.D from University of Richmond School of Law in 2005 and a B.A from the college of William and Mary in 2000. He has a partnership with a law firm named McDermott Will & Emery in Washington DC. He has a reputation of being a strong litigator built on solid commitment to pro bono cases.

A founding member of The Sikh Coalition, Sidhu has fought a pro bono battle on behalf of three Sikh men who wanted to serve in the US Army. Amandeep was successful in proving that Sikh men could perform the Uniform duties efficiently by using the cloth allotted for the duty officers in making a turban out of it which was not allowed earlier. He also showed how men with beard successfully used the gas mask in the military and outsmarted their clean shaven counterparts on the field. Finally the three men of Sikh origin were selected in the U.S military thanks to the efforts made by Amandeep, but he has a vision to bring about a policy Change for appointment of men with turban in the U.S military.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kamala Devi Harris

 

Harris attended Howard University in Washington D.C. She received a J.D (Juris Doctor) from University of California, Hastings college of Law in 1989. During the California State elections in 2010, Kamala Devi Harris was made the Attorney general of California. She has previously served as the District attorney of San Francisco from 2004-2011. She is the 32^nd attorney general of California. Prior to this she has served as the deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California, from 1990-1998. Since 1998, she has been serving as the Managing Attorney of the Career Criminal Unit in the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. She is also recognized by The Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the top 100 lawyers in California serving on the board of the California District Attorney's Association and is also the Vice President of the National District Attorneys Association.

 

Recently her name was dragged into a controversy which became headlines for major publishing houses in the U.S and worldwide. The U.S President considered Harris to be the best looking attorney in the country which many believed to be a sexist remark thus quickly gaining an apology from the President himself.

 

Harris has even written a book titled "Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutors plan to make us Safer" which shows her outlook on crime justice. She looks at crime justice from a very economic perspective in attempting to reduce temptations and accebility for criminals.

 

 

 

 

 

Preeta.D.Bansal

 

Prior to joining the Obama administration Preeta served as a law partner to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. From 2009-2011 she served the U.S Federal office of Management and Budget as General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor. She is honored with an A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1986 and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989. She also has experience in working with the Clinton administration from 1993-1996 as a Counselor in the U.S department of Justice and as a White house special counsel. In the Justice Department, she provided assistance to Joel Klein, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, on United States v. Microsoft and other matters. Bansal was honored with the "Best United States Supreme Court Brief" award from the National Association of Attorneys General during every year that she served as New York Solicitor General, and is widely credited with initiating significant managerial reforms to enhance the legal excellence, efficiency and transparency of the Solicitor General's Office. She played a lead role in providing the intellectual underpinning of "federalism" that later animated Attorney General Spitzer's active state enforcement agenda.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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