US: Biden nominates Indian-American lawyer to top judge post

US President Joe Biden has announced the nomination of an Indian-American attorney, Arun Subramanian, for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

President Biden's announcement brought the number of announced federal judicial nominees to 143 as this is Biden's twenty-sixth round of nominees for the judicial positions and his thirteenth slate of nominations in 2022, according to an official statement by the White House.

Subramanian received his Juris Doctor (JD) from Columbia Law School in 2004 and his BA from Case Western Reserve University in 2001, the statement added.

If confirmed in days to come, Subramanian will become the first South Asian judge to serve on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

He is a partner at Susman Godfrey LLP in New York, where he has worked since 2007.

In his career, Subramanian has successfully redeemed over a billion dollars for public and private entities that were the victims of fraud and other illegal conduct.

Moreover, Arun Subramanian served as a law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court of the United States from 2006 to 2007, Judge Gerard E Lynch on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2005 to 2006, and Judge Dennis Jacobs on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2004 to 2005, as per the official website of Susman Godfrey.

Arun Subramanian currently serves as Chairperson of Susman Godfrey's 2022 Pro Bono Committee and is also a longtime Director of the Columbia Law Review, one of the nation's pre-eminent legal journals, the official website of Susman Godfrey stated.