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| Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald | |
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| Name | Naomi Reice Buchwald |
| Office | Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
| Term start | June 30, 2013 |
| Office1 | Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
| Term start1 | May 5, 1999 |
| Term end1 | June 30, 2013 |
| Appointer1 | Bill Clinton |
| Predecessor1 | Kimba Wood |
| Successor1 | John G. Koeltl |
| Birth date | 1944 |
| Birth place | New York City, New York |
| Alma mater | Barnard College; Harvard Law School |
Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald is a senior United States district judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999 and has presided over high-profile civil and criminal matters involving technology, securities, intellectual property, and constitutional claims. Her career spans private practice, public service, and academic engagement with institutions such as Harvard Law School and Columbia Law School.
Born in New York City in 1944, Buchwald attended Barnard College where she studied under faculty linked to Columbia University. After Barnard, she matriculated at Harvard Law School, earning a Juris Doctor alongside classmates who entered private firms like Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and government posts at the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. During her formative years she was influenced by legal scholars associated with Yale Law School, Stanford Law School, and visiting professors from Oxford University and Cambridge University.
Buchwald began her legal career in private practice with New York firms that handled matters involving clients from Sullivan & Cromwell and Cravath, Swaine & Moore to financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase. She served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York where she worked on prosecutions and civil litigation alongside colleagues from the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Later she became a partner and litigator focusing on complex commercial disputes, antitrust suits, and intellectual property cases that involved parties such as Microsoft, Apple Inc., IBM, AT&T, and Verizon Communications.
Her practice intersected with regulatory issues before agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, and the Department of Transportation. She argued matters in appellate courts including the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and coordinated with counsel from firms such as Debevoise & Plimpton, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and Latham & Watkins.
Nominated to the federal bench by Bill Clinton in 1999 to fill the seat vacated by Kimba Wood, Buchwald was confirmed by the United States Senate and received her commission on May 5, 1999. Assigned to the Southern District of New York in Manhattan, she presided over cases in federal courthouses that hosted proceedings involving judges from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and collaborative panels with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She assumed senior status on June 30, 2013, continuing to hear civil and criminal dockets and participating in multidistrict litigation and standing committees connected to the Federal Judicial Center and the Judicial Conference of the United States.
Buchwald has issued significant opinions in areas including intellectual property, securities litigation, antitrust, and First Amendment matters. She presided over litigation involving technology companies such as Google, Oracle Corporation, Amazon (company), and Yahoo! and ruled on disputes implicating patents, copyrights, and trade secrets that also involved parties like Netflix and Roku, Inc.. In securities contexts she oversaw actions related to Enron, mortgage-backed securities tied to Lehman Brothers, and claims against financial institutions including Bank of America and Citigroup.
Her rulings addressed constitutional challenges invoking precedents from the United States Supreme Court and the Second Circuit; opinions referenced decisions such as Marbury v. Madison, Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, and Ashcroft v. Iqbal. In antitrust matters her docket included cases with defendants from the Federal Trade Commission investigations and civil suits impacting markets regulated by the Department of Justice Antitrust Division. She handled high-profile criminal proceedings prosecuted by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, including matters involving white-collar defendants represented by counsel from Sullivan & Cromwell and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.
Buchwald has lectured at institutions including Columbia Law School, Fordham University School of Law, and New York University School of Law, participating in symposia with scholars from Harvard Law School and Yale Law School. She served on panels organized by the American Bar Association, the New York City Bar Association, and the Federal Judicial Center, contributing to programs on civil procedure, discovery, and alternative dispute resolution alongside judges from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and academics such as those at Georgetown University Law Center and University of Pennsylvania Law School.
She has been active in professional organizations including the Federal Bar Council, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and participated in mentorship initiatives with groups like the National Association of Women Judges and the American Constitution Society.
Buchwald resides in New York City and has been recognized by legal organizations including awards from the New York State Bar Association and honors conferred at ceremonies attended by officials from the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Judiciary. Her career has been profiled in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and legal periodicals like The American Lawyer and Law360.
Category:Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Category:Harvard Law School alumni Category:Barnard College alumni Category:1944 births Category:Living people