Appointed by Barack Obama Preceded by Seat established | Name Tanya Chutkan | |
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Alma mater George Washington University
University of Pennsylvania Education George Washington University, University of Pennsylvania Law School | ||
Tanya Sue Chutkan (born July 5, 1962) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
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Biography
Chutkan was born on July 5, 1962 in Kingston, Jamaica. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983 from George Washington University and a Juris Doctor in 1987 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. From 1987 to 1990, she worked at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson LLP (now Hogan Lovells). From 1990 to 1991, she worked at the law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Rogovin, Huge & Schiller. From 1991 to 2002, she was a trial attorney and supervisor at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. She was a partner at the law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, where her practice focused on complex civil litigation and specifically antitrust class action cases.
Her husband Peter Arno Krauthamer, a judge to the bench in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, was nominated President Barack Obama on July 11, 2011.
Federal judicial service
On December 19, 2013, President Obama nominated Chutkan to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to a new seat created pursuant to 104 Stat. 5089, on July 1, 2013. She received a hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on February 25, 2014. On March 27, 2014 her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote. On May 22, 2014 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on the nomination. On Tuesday June 3, 2014 the United States Senate voted 54-40 on the motion to invoke cloture. On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 the United States Senate voted in favor of final confirmation by a vote of 95-0. She received her judicial commission on June 5, 2014.
Notable case
Chutkan was assigned the case American Society for Testing and Materials et al. v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc. In the case, Public.Resource.Org was sued by the American Society for Testing and Materials, the National Fire Protection Association, and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers for scanning and making available building codes and fire codes which these organizations consider their copyrighted property. Chutkan ruled against Public.Resource.Org, and ordered all of the standards to be deleted from the Internet.
In summer 2017 Chutkan was presiding over the Imran Awan and Hina Alvi fraud case.