Margaret Garnett Biography – Margaret Garnett Wiki

Margaret Garnett is a Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY). She was nominated by President Joe Biden (Democratic Party) on July 11, 2023, to a seat vacated by Vincent Louis Briccetti. She was confirmed by the Senate on November 28, 2023, and received commission on January 9, 2024.

Garnett received a B.A. from University of Notre Dame in 1992. She went on to earn an M.A. and an M.Phil from Yale University in 1995 and 1997 respectively. She earned her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 2000.

After graduation, she worked at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. She moved on to a clerkship with Gerard E. Lynch, Paul J. Kellner Professor Emeritus of Law at Columbia Law and, at the time, a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New York, before she became a federal prosecutor.

Garnett began her public service career at the Southern District: in the course of a dozen years, she rose to be chief of criminal appeals before moving to the New York attorney general’s office in 2017. In 2018, then-mayor Bill de Blasio appointed her as commissioner of New York City’s Department of Investigation.

In 2021, as her term heading the city’s anti-corruption agency was ending, newly appointed U.S. Attorney Damian Williams asked her to return to the federal prosecutor’s office as the deputy for the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Garnett received the Justice Department’s Director’s Award for Superior Performance, as well as the 2016 Stimson Medal, an honor the New York City Bar Association bestows on four outstanding assistant U.S. attorneys in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York each year.

Age

She was born in 1971 in West Point, New York, U.S.

Margaret Garnett Husband

Judge Margaret Garnett now lives in Brooklyn with her two children and her husband, Seth, a script supervisor for TV and film.

Margaret Garnett Family

Garnett is the granddaughter of two generals and the daughter of a sixth-generation West Point graduate. Her father was an Army officer and the family moved often.

Margaret Garnett Salary

U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett receives an annual salary of $247,400.

Political Party

Garnett is a nominee of President Joe Biden, a Democratic.