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Colleen McMahon
Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Senior status since April 10, 2021.
Confirmed by voice voteConfirmed from the official record
- Appointed by
- William J. Clinton
- Nominated
- May 21, 1998
- Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
- July 30, 1998
- Committee action
- Reported (favorably), September 17, 1998
- Senate vote
- Voice vote, no count printed
- Confirmed
- October 21, 1998
- Commissioned
- October 22, 1998
- Senior status
- Since April 10, 2021
- American Bar Association rating
- Well Qualified
Born 1951, 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
- Private practice, New York, 1976-1979, 1980-1995
- Speechwriter and special assistant, Hon. Donald McHenry, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, 1979-1980
- Judge, New York State Court of Claims, and acting justice, Supreme Court of the State of New York, 1995-1998
- Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 2016-2020
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