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Michael B. Mukasey

Michael B. Mukasey

New York Southern District Court

Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Born 1941 in Bronx, NY

FJC ID: 1711

Career output and lasting influence

Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year

New York Southern District Court · 1987–20061987199020002010201920
opinions

Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 28/year

New York Southern District Court · 1987–200619871990200020102019280
citing decisions

New York Southern District Court · 1987–2006

Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.

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Michael Bernard Mukasey (; born July 28, 1941) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as the 81st United States attorney general from 2007 to 2009 and as a U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1987 to 2006.

Mukasey graduated from Columbia University with a degree in history and received a Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School. He worked in private practice for two decades and spent four years as an assistant United States attorney in the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In 1987, after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan, Mukasey was confirmed as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He became Chief Judge in 2000 and served in that capacity until his retirement in 2006.

In 2007, Mukasey was nominated to the position of United States Attorney General by President George W. Bush following the resignation of Alberto Gonzales. Upon his Senate confirmation and swearing-in, Mukasey became the second Jewish attorney general in U.S. history. He left office after Bush's term as president ended.

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Gender
Male
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Attorney General of the United States
    2007–2009
  2. Judicial Conference of the United States
    Member · 2005–2006
  3. Private practice, New York City
    1967–1972, 1976–1987
  4. Southern District of New York
    Southern District of New York
    Assistant U.S. attorney · 1972–1976
    • ↳chief, Official Corruption Unit · 1975–1976

Appointments

  1. New York Southern District Court
    U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New YorkChief Judge
    1987–2006 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
    Term ended: Retirement

Education

  1. Yale University Law School
    Yale Law School
    LL.B. · 1967
  2. Columbia University
    A.B. · 1963