William Marion Skretny (born March 8, 1945) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York.
William M. Skretny
New York Western District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
Born 1945 in Buffalo, NY
FJC ID: 2205
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 10/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 36/year
New York Western District Court · 1990–2015
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 · 2013–2016
- Private practice, Buffalo, New York1981–1983, 1988–1990
- Erie County, New YorkFirst deputy district attorney · 1983–1988
Assistant U.S. attorney · 1973–1981- ↳first assistant U.S. attorney · 1975–1981
Office of Special Prosecutor, U.S. Department of JusticeStaff attorney · 1980- Attorney General's Advocacy Institute, Washington, D.C.Special counsel · 1979
- Northern District of IllinoisAssistant U.S. attorney · 1971–1973
- Ford FoundationFellow
Appointments
1990–2015 · Appointed by George H.W. Bush (Republican)
Education
J.D. · 1969- Canisius CollegeA.B. · 1966