Sterling Johnson

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Years in office: 2003 - 2022

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Years in office: 1991 - 2003

Education

Bachelor's

Brooklyn College, 1963

Law

Brooklyn Law School, 1966

Sterling Johnson, Jr. was afederal judge for theUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Johnson was nominated by PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush on May 17, 1991, to a seat vacated byJoseph McLaughlin; he was confirmed by the Senate on June 27, 1991, and received commission onJuly 2, 1991. He assumedsenior status onJune 1, 2003. His service ended on October 10, 2022, upon his death.^[1][2]

Education

Johnson earned his B.A. andLL.B. from Brooklyn College in 1963 and 1966, respectively.^[1]

Military service

Johnson served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1952 to 1955.^[1]

Professional career

• 1999-2003: Commissioner, U.S. Sentencing Commission
• 1975-1991: Special narcotics prosecutor, New York City
• 1974-1975: Executive liaison officer, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
• 1970-1974: Executive director, Civilian Complaint Review Board, New York City Police Department
• 1967-1970: Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York
• 1956-1967: Police officer, New York City Police Department^[1]

Judicial career

Eastern District of New York

Johnson was nominated by PresidentGeorge H.W. Bush on May 17, 1991, to a seat vacated byJoseph McLaughlin; he was confirmed by the Senate on June 27, 1991, and received commission onJuly 2, 1991. He assumedsenior status onJune 1, 2003. His service ended on October 10, 2022, upon his death.^[1][2]

See also

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

External links

• United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Sterling Johnson's Biography at theFederal Judicial Center

Footnotes

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Active judges	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 judges	Arlene 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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