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Natasha Clarise Merle
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Active service.
Confirmed 50 to 49Confirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- Joseph R. Biden
- Nominated
- January 3, 2023
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- Not published yet
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), February 9, 2023
- Senate vote
- Recorded vote, 50 to 49
- Confirmed
- June 21, 2023
- Commissioned
- August 11, 2023
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1983, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it.
Source: Federal Judicial Center, Biographical Directory of Article III Federal Judges · This judge’s entry. Our copy saved October 16, 2026, fingerprint 92b677f26553b479.
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Career, as the Federal Judicial Center prints it
- Law clerk, Hon. Robert L. Carter, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2008-2009
- Staff attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow, Gulf Region Advocacy Center, Houston, Texas, 2009-2011
- Assistant federal public defender, Capital Habeas Unit, District of Arizona, 2011-2012
- Law clerk, Hon. John Gleeson, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 2012-2013
- Private practice and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Fellow, New York City, 2013-2015
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, New York City, 2016-2023; fellow, 2016-2018; assistant counsel, 2018; senior counsel, 2018-2021; deputy director of litigation, 2021-2023
- Adjunct professor of clinical law, New York University School of Law, 2019-2020
- Lecturer in law, Columbia Law School, 2020-2021
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