Jennifer Rochon

Nonpartisan

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Tenure

2022 - Present

Years in position

3

Education

Bachelor's

University of Michigan, 1992

Law

New York University School of Law, 1997

Contact

Official website

Personal LinkedIn

Jennifer Louise Rochon is a judge on theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She was nominated to the court by PresidentJoe Biden (D) on December 15, 2021, and confirmed by theUnited States Senate on May 18, 2022, by a vote of 51-47.^[1][2] Rochon was one of 235Article III judges nominated by PresidentJoe Biden (D) and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. To see a full list of judges appointed byJoe Biden,click here.

TheUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York is one of 94U.S. District Courts. They are the generaltrial courts of theUnited States federal courts. To learn more about the court,click here.

Rochon was previously the general counsel of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America.^[1]

Judicial nominations and appointments

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (2022-present)

See also:Federal judges nominated by Joe Biden

On December 15, 2021, PresidentJoe Biden (D) nominated Jennifer Rochon to theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She was confirmed by a 51-47 vote of the U.S. Senate on May 18, 2022.^[1][2] Rochon received commission on June 13, 2022.^[3] To read more about the federal nominations process,click here.

Nomination Tracker
Nominee Information
Name: Jennifer Rochon
Court:United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Progress
Confirmed 154 days after nomination.
ANominated: December 15, 2021
AABA Rating:Well Qualified
Questionnaire:Questionnaire
AHearing: February 1, 2022
Hearing Transcript:Hearing Transcript
QFRs:QFRs(Hover over QFRs to read more)
AReported: March 10, 2022
AConfirmed: May 18, 2022
AVote: 51-47

Confirmation vote

The U.S. Senate confirmed Rochon by a vote of 51-47 on May 18, 2022.^[2] To see a full breakdown of the vote on the official U.S. Senate website,click here.

Rochon confirmation vote (May 18, 2022)
Party	Yea	Nay	No vote
Democratic	46	0	2
Republican	3	47	0
Independent	2	0	0
Total	51	47	2

Senate Judiciary Committee hearing

TheSenate Judiciary Committee held hearings on Rochon's nomination on February 1, 2022. The committee voted to advance Rochon's nomination to the full Senate on March 10, 2022.^[2]

Nomination

On December 15, 2021, PresidentJoe Biden (D) announced his intent to nominate Rochon to theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The president officially nominated Rochon on the same day.^[1][2]

Rochon was nominated to replace JudgeGeorge Daniels, who assumedsenior status on May 1, 2021.^[2]

TheAmerican Bar Association rated RochonWell Qualified.^[4] To read more about ABA ratings,click here.

Biography

Education

Rochon earned an A.B., with distinction, from the University of Michigan in 1992 and aJ.D. from the New York University School of Law in 1997.^[1]

Professional career

• 2022-present: Judge,United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• 2013-2022: General counsel, Girls Scouts of the United States of America
• 2000-2013: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
  • 2006-2013: Partner
  • 2000-2006: Associate
• 1997-2000: Law clerk, JudgeMaryanne Trump Barry
  • 2000:U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • 1997-1999:U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey^[1]

About the court

Southern District of New York
Second Circuit
Judgeships
Posts: 28
Judges: 25
Vacancies: 3
Judges
Chief:Laura Swain
Active judges:Ronnie Abrams,Vernon Broderick,Andrew L. Carter Jr.,Jessica Clarke,John Peter Cronan,Paul A. Engelmayer,Katherine Failla,Jesse Furman,Margaret Garnett,Philip M. Halpern,Dale Ho,Kenneth Karas,John Koeltl,Lewis Liman,James Paul Oetken,Edgardo Ramos,Jennifer Rearden,Jennifer Rochon,Nelson S. Roman,Arun Subramanian,Laura Swain,Analisa Torres,Jeannette Vargas,Mary Kay Vyskocil,Gregory Howard Woods Senior judges: Richard Berman,Vincent L. Briccetti,Naomi Buchwald,Valerie Caproni,Kevin Castel,Denise Cote,Paul Crotty,George Daniels,Paul Gardephe,Charles Haight,Alvin Hellerstein,Lewis Kaplan,John Keenan,Victor Marrero,Colleen McMahon,Loretta Preska,Jed Rakoff,Lorna Schofield,Cathy Seibel,Louis Stanton,Sidney Stein,Kimba Wood

TheUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York is one of 94United States district courts. The Southern District is one of the most influential and active federal district courts in the United States, largely because of its jurisdiction over New York's major financial centers. When decisions of the court are appealed, they are appealed to theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit based in Lower Manhattan at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Federal Courthouse.

The Southern District of New York hasoriginal jurisdiction over cases filed within its jurisdiction. These cases can include civil and criminal matters that fall under federal law.

The court shares geographic jurisdiction over New York City with theU.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, which manages Brooklyn, Queens, and Richmond (Staten Island) counties, along with Nassau and Suffolk on Long Island.

To read opinions published by this court, clickhere.

The federal nomination process

Federal judges are nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. There are multiple steps to the process:

• The president nominates an individual for a judicial seat.
• The nominee fills out a questionnaire and is reviewed by theSenate Judiciary Committee.
• The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing with the nominee, questioning them about things like their judicial philosophy, past rulings or opinions, etc.

• As part of this process, the committee sends ablue slip to senators from the home state in which the judicial nomination was received, allowing them to express their approval or disapproval of the nominee.

• After the hearing, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote to approve or return the nominee.

• If approved, the nominee is voted on by the full Senate.
• If the Committee votes to return the nominee to the president, the president has the opportunity to re-nominate the individual.

• The Senate holds a vote on the candidate.

• If the Senate confirms the nomination, the nominee receives a commission to serve a lifelong position as a federal judge.
• If the Senate does not confirm the nomination, that nominee does not become a judge.

See also

• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit

External links

Suggest a link

• Biography from theFederal Judicial Center
• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Active judges	Chief Judge: Laura Swain  •  Kenneth Karas  •  John Koeltl  •  Andrew L. Carter, Jr.  •  Nelson S. Roman  •  Analisa Torres  •  J. Paul Oetken  •  Paul A. Engelmayer  •  Edgardo Ramos  •  Jesse Furman  •  Ronnie Abrams  •  Katherine Failla  •  Vernon Broderick  •  Gregory Howard Woods  •  Mary Kay Vyskocil  •  Lewis Liman  •  Philip Halpern  •  John Cronan (New York)  •  Jennifer Rearden  •  Dale Ho  •  Jessica Clarke  •  Jennifer Rochon  •  Arun Subramanian  •  Margaret Garnett  •  Jeannette Vargas
Senior judges	Victor Marrero  •  Kimba Wood  •  Richard Berman  •  Naomi Buchwald  •  Kevin Castel  •  Denise Cote  •  Paul Crotty  •  George Daniels  •  Paul Gardephe  •  Charles Haight  •  Alvin Hellerstein  •  Lewis Kaplan  •  John Keenan (New York)  •  Colleen McMahon  •  Loretta Preska  •  Jed Rakoff  •  Cathy Seibel  •  Louis Stanton  •  Sidney Stein  •  Vincent L. Briccetti  •  Lorna Schofield  •  Valerie Caproni  •
Magistrate judges	Kevin Fox  •  Debra Freeman  •  Gabriel Gorenstein  •  Paul Davison  •  James L. Cott  •  Sarah Netburn  •  Judith C. McCarthy  •  Barbara Moses  •  Katharine Parker  •  Stewart Aaron  •  Robert Lehrburger  •  Ona Wang  •  Sarah Cave  •  Andrew Krause  •  Jennifer Willis  •  Kim Berg  •
Former Article III judges	Michael Mukasey  •  Morris Lasker  •  Harold Baer  •  Deborah Batts  •  Robert Carter (New York)  •  Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum  •  Denny Chin  •  William Conner  •  Thomas Griesa  •  Richard Holwell  •  Barbara Jones  •  Shirley Kram  •  Peter Leisure  •  Gerard Lynch  •  Lawrence McKenna  •  Richard Owen  •  Robert Patterson (New York)  •  William Pauley  •  Stephen Robinson (New York)  •  Shira Scheindlin  •  John Sprizzo  •  Richard Sullivan (New York)  •  Robert Sweet  •  William Peter Van Ness  •  Samuel Rossiter Betts  •  Samuel Blatchford  •  Sonia Sotomayor  •  William Gardner Choate  •  Pierre Leval  •  Wilfred Feinberg  •  John Walker (New York)  •  Barrington Parker  •  Lawrence Pierce  •  Addison Brown  •  George Bethune Adams  •  George Chandler Holt  •  Charles Merrill Hough  •  Learned Hand  •  Julius Marshuetz Mayer  •  Augustus Noble Hand  •  John Clark Knox  •  Martin Thomas Manton  •  William Bondy  •  Henry Warren Goddard  •  Francis Asbury Winslow  •  Frank Joseph Coleman  •  Thomas Day Thacher  •  Alfred Conkling Coxe, Jr.  •  John Munro Woolsey  •  George Murray Hulbert  •  John William Clancy  •  Vincent Leibell (New York judge)  •  Samuel Mandelbaum  •  Edward Conger  •  Robert Porter Patterson, Sr.  •  Kevin Duffy  •  Gerard Goettel  •  Charles Metzner  •  Arnold Bauman  •  Alexander Bicks  •  Dudley Bonsal  •  Charles Brieant  •  John Bright  •  Vincent Broderick  •  Frederick Bryan  •  Francis Caffey  •  John Cannella  •  Richard Casey  •  John Cashin  •  Kenneth Conboy  •  Irving Cooper  •  Thomas Croake  •  Richard Daronco  •  Archie Dawson  •  Edward Dimock  •  David Edelstein  •  Marvin Frankel  •  Louis Freeh  •  Lee Gagliardi  •  Murray Gurfein  •  William Herlands  •  Irving Kaufman  •  Samuel Kaufman  •  Percy Knapp  •  Richard Levet  •  Mary Lowe  •  Lloyd MacMahon  •  Walter Mansfield  •  John McGohey  •  Edward McLean  •  Harold Medina  •  Constance Motley  •  Gregory Noonan  •  Edmund Palmieri  •  Milton Pollack  •  Simon Rifkind  •  Sylvester Ryan  •  Allen Schwartz  •  Abraham Sofaer  •  Charles Stewart  •  Sidney Sugarman  •  Charles Tenney  •  Harold Tyler  •  Lawrence Walsh (New York judge)  •  Robert Ward  •  Edward Weinfeld  •  Henry Werker  •  Inzer Wyatt  •  John S. Martin (New York)  •  Thomas Francis Murphy (New York)  •  Alison J. Nathan  •  Katherine Forrest  •
Former Chief judges	Kimba Wood  •  Colleen McMahon  •  Loretta Preska  •  Lisa Smith (New York)  •  John Clark Knox  •  William Bondy  •  John William Clancy  •  Charles Brieant  •  David Edelstein  •  Lloyd MacMahon  •  Constance Motley  •  Sylvester Ryan  •  Sidney Sugarman  •

v • e Federal judges nominated to Article III courts byJoe Biden
Commissioned in 2025	Keli Neary
Commissioned in 2024	John Kazen •John Russell •Margaret Garnett •Cristal Brisco •Jacquelyn Austin •Gretchen Hess Lund •Micah Smith •Joshua Kolar •Karoline Mehalchick •Kirk Sherriff •Lisa Wang •David Leibowitz •Jacqueline Becerra •Julie Sneed •Melissa Damian •Kelly H. Rankin •Nicole Berner •Sunil Harjani •Leon Schydlower •Ernesto Gonzalez •Susan Bazis •Robert White •Ann Marie McIff Allen •Eumi Lee •Krissa Lanham •Eric Schulte •Camela Theeler •Angela Martinez •Jasmine Yoon •Nancy Maldonado •Meredith Vacca •Georgia Alexakis •Joseph Saporito •Amy Baggio •Stacey Neumann •Mary Kay Lanthier •Adam Abelson •Laura Provinzino •Mary Kay Costello •Dena Coggins •Kevin Ritz •Shanlyn A. S. Park •Byron Conway •Jeannette Vargas •Michelle Williams Court •Jonathan E. Hawley •April Perry •Mustafa Kasubhai •Sarah Russell •Amir Ali •Rebecca Pennell •Anthony Brindisi •Elizabeth Coombe •Cynthia Valenzuela •Anne Hwang •Brian Murphy •Noël Wise •Sanket Bulsara •Tiffany Johnson •Sparkle Sooknanan •Gail Weilheimer •Embry Kidd •Melissa DuBose •Sharad Desai •Serena R. Murillo •Benjamin Cheeks •Sarah Davenport
Commissioned in 2023	Kai Scott •Tamika Montgomery-Reeves •Margaret R. Guzman •Daniel Calabretta •Matthew Garcia •DeAndrea G. Benjamin •Cindy Chung •Adrienne Nelson •Lindsay Jenkins •Gina Méndez-Miró •Araceli Martínez-Olguín •Jamar Walker •Ana Reyes •Jamal Whitehead •Gordon Gallagher •Matthew Brookman•Maria Araujo Kahn• James Simmons •Robert Ballou• Andrew Schopler •Jonathan Grey•Colleen Lawless •Arun Subramanian •Jessica Clarke •Robert Kirsch •Michael Farbiarz •Anthony Johnstone •Orelia Merchant •Wesley Hsu •Bradley Garcia •LaShonda A. Hunt •Nancy Gbana Abudu •Amanda Brailsford •Darrel Papillion •Jeremy Daniel •Hernan D. Vera •Julie Rikelman •Nusrat Choudhury •P. Casey Pitts •Myong Joun •Kymberly Evanson •Tiffany Cartwright •Rachel Bloomekatz •Natasha Merle •Dale Ho •Philip Hadji •Rita Lin •Brendan Hurson •Vernon D. Oliver •Matthew Maddox •Julia Munley •Brandy McMillion •Susan DeClercq •Julia Kobick •Ramon Reyes, Jr. •Ana de Alba •Kenly Kiya Kato •Mónica Ramírez Almadani •Jeffrey M. Bryan •Jamel Semper •Irma Ramirez •Richard Federico •Loren AliKhan •Brandon Long •Jerry Edwards Jr.•Sara Hill •Joseph Laroski
Commissioned in 2022	David Herrera Urias •Gabriel Sanchez •Holly Thomas •Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong •David Ruiz •Charles Fleming •Bridget Brennan •Leonard Stark •Alison J. Nathan •John Chun •Julie Rubin •Jacqueline Scott Corley •Ruth Bermudez Montenegro •Victoria Calvert •Georgette Castner •Anne Traum •Cristina Silva •Ketanji Brown Jackson (Supreme Court) •Sarah Geraghty •Hector Gonzalez •Fred Slaughter •Jennifer Rochon •Robert Huie •Sunshine S. Sykes • Stephanie Dawkins Davis • Evelyn Padin • Sherilyn P. Garnett • Ana de Alba • J. Michelle Childs • Trina Thompson • Elizabeth Hanes • Nancy Maldonado • Nina Morrison • Gregory Williams • John Z. Lee • Sal Mendoza, Jr. • Lara Montecalvo • Florence Pan • Andre Mathis • Sarah A.L. Merriam •Jennifer Rearden • Roopali Desai • María Antongiorgi-Jordán • Camille Vélez-Rivé • Doris Pryor • Frances Kay Behm • Dana Douglas • Mia Roberts Perez • Anne Nardacci •Jeffery P. Hopkins
Commissioned in 2021	Ketanji Brown Jackson • Zahid Quraishi •Julien Xavier Neals • Deborah Boardman • Regina Rodriguez • Candace Jackson-Akiwumi • Lydia Kay Griggsby • Tiffany Cunningham • Eunice Lee • Angel Kelley •Florence Pan •Veronica Rossman • David G. Estudillo • Sarah A.L. Merriam •Gustavo Gelpí • Christine O'Hearn •Margaret Strickland • Karen McGlashan Williams •Patricia Tolliver Giles • Toby Heytens •Michael Nachmanoff •Sarala Nagala • Beth Robinson • Omar A. Williams • Myrna Pérez • Jia Cobb • Tana Lin • Lauren King • Lucy H. Koh • Jennifer Sung • Samantha Elliott • Katherine Menendez • Mary Dimke • Linda Lopez • Shalina Kumar • Jane Beckering • Jinsook Ohta • Jennifer L. Thurston •Stephen Locher •Charlotte Sweeney •Nina Nin-Yuen Wang •Arianna Freeman •Jerry Blackwell