Raymond Joseph Dearie (born 1944) is an American lawyer who is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He also served as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2012 to 2019.
Raymond Joseph Dearie
New York Eastern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Born 1944 in Rockville Center, NY
FJC ID: 593
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 21/year
New York Eastern District Court · 1986–2011
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.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2010–2011
U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York1982–1986
Assistant U.S. attorney · 1971–1977, 1980–1982- ↳Chief, Appeals Division · 1971–1974
- ↳Chief, General Crimes Section · 1974–1976
- ↳Chief, Criminal Division · 1976–1977
- ↳Executive assistant U.S. attorney · 1977
- ↳Chief assistant U.S. attorney · 1980–1982
- Private practice, New York City1969–1971, 1977–1980
Appointments
- 1986–2011 · Appointed by Ronald Reagan (Republican)
Education
J.D. · 1969- Fairfield UniversityB.A. · 1966