President Obama has nominated an Indian-American to serve on the U.S. District Court bench for the Eastern District of New York.
Diane Gujarati, 47, of New York City, is among several Indian-Americans President Obama has nominated to judgeships during his administration. She will have to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate which has several past nominations of President Obama on hold. “I am pleased to nominate Diane Gujarati to serve on the United States District Court bench,” President Obama is quoted saying in a White House press release Sept. 13. “I am confident she will serve the American people with distinction.”
Gujarati has a storied career in the U.S. prosecutorial system. Most recently, she has been Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York since 2012.Prior to that, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division since 1999. Gujarati did not return calls by press time.
From 2008 to 2012, Gujarati was the Deputy Chief and then Chief of the White Plains Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
From 2006 to 2008, she was Deputy Chief of the Appeals Unit in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.
Prior to joining the United States Attorney’s Office, Gujarati was in private practice as an associate in the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP from 1996 to 1999. After graduating with a law degree from Yale, she began her legal career as a law clerk to the Judge John M. Walker, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1995 to 1996.
Gujarati graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the daughter of Ruth Pincus Gujarati of Scarsdale, N.Y., and Damodar Gujarati of Tarrytown, N.Y. Her father serves as professor of economics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. and is best known for writing the textbook, Basic Econometrics, which has been published in 5 editions over 21 years and is translated into several languages. Her mother taught social studies at Theodore Roosevelt High School in the Bronx.
Gujarati married Charles Frederic Chesnut, an IT professional, in October 2000, and the couple was featured in the New York Times.
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