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Amit Priyavadan Mehta, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia. September 17, 2014. Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/THE NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL.
Amit Priyavadan Mehta, who was born in India and came to the U.S. as a young child, was formally sworn in late last month as United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, the first Asian Pacific American on the bench.
Son of immigrants who came to the United States in the early 1970s, Mehta was the embodiment of the American dream, the National Law Journal said in a report quoting speakers at the June 19 ceremony.
Judge Sri Srinivasan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, who administered the oath of office, said he and Mehta came from communities that took “special pride in what today signifies.”
The journal report said that Mehta in his remarks noted that the ceremony had the feel of an Indian wedding—although he lamented that he couldn’t fulfill his dream of riding in on a horse like in a Bollywood movie.
Mehta was confirmed in late December. He was previously a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder and spent several years at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.
The report quoted Dr. Sanjay Desai, a childhood friend of Mehta’s and the director of a medical training program at Johns Hopkins Hospital, as saying that Mehta always had a “deep and sincere sense for justice.”
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