Jessica G. L. Clarke
American lawyer
Jessica Gloria Lynn Clarke (born 1983) is an American lawyer from New York who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Education
Clarke received her Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University in 2005 and her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 2008.
Career
Clarke began her law career as a law clerk for Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio from 2008 to 2010. From 2010 to 2016, she served as a trial attorney in the Housing & Civil Enforcement Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. She then worked at the boutique law firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP, first as an associate from 2016 to 2018 and then as of counsel from 2018 to 2019. From 2019 to 2023, she served as chief of the Civil Rights Bureau at the New York State Office of Attorney General under Letitia James, overseeing the bureau's work on violations of civil rights law in New York.
Federal judicial service
On December 15, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Clarke to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to a seat vacated by Judge Colleen McMahon, who assumed senior status on April 21, 2021. On January 12, 2022, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. During her hearing, Republican senators questioned her over her role in an investigation related to the New York City police response to George Floyd protests.
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