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Kiyo Matsumoto

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Kiyo Matsumoto
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Tenure
2022 - Present
Years in position
3
Prior offices:
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Years in office: 2008 - 2022
Predecessor:Edward Korman (Nonpartisan)
Successor:Ramon Reyes Jr. (Nonpartisan)
Education
Bachelor's
University of California, Berkeley, 1976
Law
Georgetown University Law Center, 1981
Personal
Birthplace
Raleigh, NC
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Kiyo Matsumoto is afederal judge onsenior status for theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She joined the court in 2008 after being nominated by PresidentGeorge W. Bush (R).[1] She assumedsenior status on July 23, 2022.[2]

Early life and education

Born in Raleigh,North Carolina, Matsumoto graduated from the University of California-Berkeley with her bachelor's degree in 1976 and later from Georgetown University Law Center with aJ.D. in 1981.[1]

Professional career

Matsumoto was a private practice attorney inWashington State from 1981 to 1983 before joining theU.S. Attorney's Office as assistant U.S. attorney for theEastern District of New York from 1983 to 2004. Matsumoto served as an adjunct professor of law at New York University School of Law from 1998 to 2004.[1]

Judicial career

Eastern District of New York

Matsumoto was afederal magistrate judge for theEastern District of New York in 2004 where she served a partial term until 2008.[1]

In 2008, Matsumoto was nominated to theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of New York by PresidentGeorge W. Bush (R) onMarch 11, 2008, to a seat vacated byEdward Korman as Korman assumedsenior status. Matsumoto was confirmed by theSenate onJuly 17, 2008, on a majority vote and received commission onJuly 22, 2008.[3] She assumedsenior status on July 23, 2022.

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United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

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    Chief Judge: Margo Brodie  •  Roslynn Mauskopf  •  Ramon Reyes, Jr.  •  Ann M. Donnelly  •  Pamela Ki Mai Chen  •  Gary R. Brown (Federal judge)  •  LaShann Moutique DeArcy Hall  •  Diane Gujarati  •  Eric Komitee  •  Rachel Kovner  •  Sanket Bulsara  •  Hector Gonzalez (New York)  •  Nina Morrison  •  Nusrat Choudhury  •  Natasha Merle  •  Orelia Merchant

    Senior judges

    Raymond Dearie  •  Leo Glasser  •  Denis Hurley  •  Edward Korman  •  Carol Amon  •  Brian Cogan  •  Nicholas Garaufis  •  Nina Gershon  •  Dora Irizarry  •  Kiyo Matsumoto  •  Allyne Ross  •  Joanna Seybert  •  Eric Vitaliano  •  Joan Azrack  •  Frederic Block  •  William Kuntz  •  

    Magistrate judgesArlene Lindsay  •  Roanne Mann  •  Cheryl Pollak  •  Ramon Reyes, Jr.  •  Vera Scanlon  •  Steven Locke  •  Peggy Kuo  •  Steven Tiscione  •  Anne Shields  •  James Wicks  •  James R. Cho  •  Taryn A. Merkl  •  Marcia Henry  •  
    Former Article III judges

    Sterling Johnson  •  Thomas Platt  •  Charles Sifton  •  Arthur Spatt  •  David Trager  •  Jack Weinstein  •  Leonard Wexler  •  Joseph Bianco  •  Sandra Feuerstein  •  John Gleeson  •  Sandra Townes  •  Frank Altimari  •  Charles Linnaeus Benedict  •  Joseph McLaughlin (Second Circuit)  •  Reena Raggi  •  George Pratt  •  Asa Wentworth Tenney  •  Edward Beers Thomas  •  Thomas Chatfield  •  Van Vechten Veeder  •  Edwin Louis Garvin  •  Marcus Beach Campbell  •  Robert Alexander Inch  •  Grover Moscowitz  •  Mortimer Byers  •  Clarence Galston  •  Matthew Abruzzo  •  John Bartels  •  Frederic Block  •  Henry Bramwell  •  Walter Bruchhausen  •  Mark Costantino  •  John Dooling  •  Orrin Judd  •  Jacob Mishler  •  Edward Neaher  •  Eugene Nickerson  •  Leo Rayfiel  •  George Rosling  •  Anthony Travia  •  Joseph Zavatt  •  Harold Kennedy (New York)  •  

    Former Chief judges

    Raymond Dearie  •  Edward Korman  •  Thomas Platt  •  Charles Sifton  •  Jack Weinstein  •  Carol Amon  •  Dora Irizarry  •  Roslynn Mauskopf  •  Robert Alexander Inch  •  Walter Bruchhausen  •  Jacob Mishler  •  Joseph Zavatt  •  


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