US District Judge: President Joe Biden nominates Indian-origin Arun Subramanian as US District Judge

Subramaniam received a JD from Columbia Law School in 2004 and a BA from Case Western Reserve University in 2001. The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) has congratulated Subramaniam for his nomination.

US District Judge: President Joe Biden nominates Indian-origin Arun Subramanian as US District Judge
President Joe Biden nominates Indian-origin Arun Subramanian as US District Judge, image source: Twitter

US President Joe Biden has nominated Indian-American lawyer Arun Subramaniam to be the District Judge of New York. Legal documents in this regard have been sent to the Senate by the White House. If Subramaniam's name is approved by the Senate. So he will be the first South Asian judge to serve on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. 

Arun has worked with many American judges

Presently, Subramaniam is a partner at Susman Godfrey LLP in New York. Here he has been working since 2007, Subramaniam worked as a clerk for US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from 2006 to 2007. At the same time, he served in the State District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2005 to 2006 for US Judge Gerard E. Lynch. 

Law degree obtained in the year 2004

Subramaniam also served as a law clerk for Judge Dennis Jacobs in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2004 to 2005. He received a JD from Columbia Law School in 2004 and a BA from Case Western Reserve University in 2001. The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) has congratulated Subramaniam for his nomination. 

All the organizations welcomed the nomination

Indian-American Impact has welcomed Subramaniam's nomination as a remarkable decision. Neil Makhija of the Indian-American Impact said that South Asians and Asian Americans have long been underrepresented in the federal judiciary. Less than five percent of Article III district judges are of AAPI origin. But in the last one year we have achieved historic success.