Washington: US President Donald Trump has nominated Indian-American woman attorney Saritha Komatireddy as a judge to a federal court in New York.
Komatireddy, a prosecutor who also teaches law at the prestigious Columbia Law School, has been nominated to the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Trump sent her nomination to the US Senate on Monday, the White House said.
Earlier, she clerked under former judge of the same district Brett Kavanaugh.
Komatireddy is currently Deputy Chief of General Crimes in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.
Previously she was Acting Deputy Chief, International Narcotics and Money Laundering (June, 2018 – January, 2019) and Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property Coordinator (2016-2019).
Upon graduating from the prestigious Harvard Law School, Komatireddy served as a law clerk to then-Judge Kavanaugh of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
She also served as counsel to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.
On February 12, Trump announced his intent to nominate Komatireddy to serve as a United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. (AGENCIES)
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Trump nominates Indian-American
Manisha Singh as OECD envoy
WASHINGTON, May 5:
US President Donald Trump has nominated senior Indian-American diplomat Manisha Singh as his envoy to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Currently Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs at the State Department, Singh will be the US representative to OECD with the rank of an Ambassador, according to the nomination sent to the Senate by the White House.
Paris-based OECD is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 36 member countries to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
On April 27, Trump had announced his intent to nominate Singh for this position.
Singh, who is in her late 40s, previously served as the acting under secretary of Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment and as a deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs at the State Department.
She also previously served as the deputy chief counsel to the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Singh was the Senior Fellow for International Economic Affairs at the American Foreign Policy Council and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
According to the White House, her private sector experience includes practicing law at multinational law firms and working in-house at an investment bank.
She earned an LL.M. In International Legal Studies from the American University Washington College of Law, a J.D. (Juris Doctor) from the University of Florida College of Law, and a B.A. From the University of Miami. In addition, she studied at the University of Leiden Law School in the Netherlands. (AGENCIES)
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