Obama Judicial Appointee Jesuit Educated

Gerard Lynch is currently serving as a district judge in Manhattan. He holds an endowed chair at Columbia Law School has, throughout his career, served in a wide variety of government positions. He also seems to have figured out the fine art of being a student.

According to the White House press release: “After graduating first in his class from Regis High School, a Jesuit school in New York, he received his B.A. from Columbia in 1972, where he was valedictorian. He received his J.D. from Columbia in 1975, again graduating first in his class.”

Perhaps not surprisingly, Lynch snagged a couple of elite clerkships: working first for the Second Circuit’s Wilfred Feinberg and later for (supporter of abortion rights) Supreme Court Justice William Brennan.

So how will Senate Republicans greet these nominations? It’s too early to tell; the Senate Judiciary Committee will not vote on the nomination for several weeks. A hint could come from the AP story: “with Republicans complaining of inadequate preparation time, the hearing signaled a rocky beginning to Obama’s attempt to remake the federal judiciary.”

Link (here) to the Wall Street Journal

Photo is of Judge Gerald Lynch