1. Education

2. Legal career

3. Nomination to district court

4. References

5. External links

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Rachel Peter Kovner (born September 29, 1979)^[1] is an American lawyer from New York and a former nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Education

Kovner earned her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Harvard College, and her Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School, where she graduated first in her class, was inducted into the Order of the Coif, and served as the senior articles editor of the Stanford Law Review.^[2]

Legal career

At the start of her legal career she served as a law clerk to Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and then to Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court of the United States.^[2]

Prior to her service in the United States Department of Justice she served for four years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where she served as trial counsel in ten felony trials and argued seven appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

She currently serves as an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Solicitor General’s Office within the Department of Justice, where she has represented the United States in litigation before the Supreme Court since 2013.^[2]

Nomination to district court

In August 2017, Kovner was one of several candidates pitched to New York senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand by the White House as judicial candidates for vacancies on the federal courts in New York.^[3] On May 10, 2018, President Trump announced his intent to nominate Kovner to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. On May 15, 2018, her nomination was sent to the Senate. She was nominated to the seat that was vacated by Judge Carol Bagley Amon, who assumed senior status on November 30, 2016. On August 1, 2018, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.^[4] On September 13, 2018, her nomination was reported out of committee by a 21–0 vote.^[5]

On January 3, 2019, her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI, Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate. As of February 2019, she had not been renominated.^[6]

References

External links

• [https://www.oyez.org/advocates/rachel_p_kovner Appearances at the U.S. Supreme Court] from the Oyez Project
• {{C-SPAN|rachelkovner}}

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