President Donald Trump is again renominating U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary R. Brown to serve as a district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Magistrate Judge Brown has served in the Eastern District since his selection in 2011.
He also serves as an adjunct professor at St. John's School of Law.
In 2014, Magistrate Judge Brown was selected by the Board of Judges to serve on the Committee of Magistrate Judges appointed to manage more than 1,400 Superstorm Sandy cases filed in the Eastern District of New York.
Prior to his appointment to the bench, Magistrate Judge Brown served as the director of litigation and chief compliance officer of CA Technologies.
Before entering private practice, Magistrate Judge Brown served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York for more than 15 years, concluding his service as the chief of the Long Island Criminal Division.
Magistrate Judge Brown also is a three time recipient of the Director's Award from the Executive Office for United States Attorneys and, in 2000, received the Federal Prosecutor's Award from the National Law Enforcement Association.
Upon graduation from law school, Magistrate Judge Brown served as a law clerk to Judge Jacob Mishler of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Magistrate Judge Brown earned his B.A. from Columbia College and his J.D. from Yale Law School.
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