Denise Louise Cote was born on October 13,1946 and is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Denise Cote received a Bachelor of Arts degree from St Mary's College in 1968 and a Master of Arts in history from Columbia University in 1969, after which she taught US history, world history, and African-American history at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, a school in Manhattan.
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Denise Cote served as an Assistant United States Attorney of the Southern District of New York in the office's Criminal Division from 1977 to 1985, and returned to the US Attorney's Office in 1991 under US Attorney Otto G Obermaier to serve as Chief of the SDNY Criminal Division, the first woman to ever serve in that position.
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In 1994, Denise Cote briefly served as a Special Assistant to the Assistant United States Attorney General of the Criminal Division at the United States Department of Justice in Washington, DC, before being confirmed to her federal judgeship.
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Denise Cote serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Denise Cote was nominated by President Bill Clinton on April 26,1994, to a seat vacated by Mary Johnson Lowe.
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Denise Cote was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 9,1994, received her commission on August 10,1994, and took office on August 11,1994.
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Denise Cote regularly sits by designation on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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Denise Cote is a member of the "Patent Pilot Project" in the Southern District of New York.
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In December 2013, Denise Cote approved a settlement of the antitrust claims, in which the publishers paid into a fund that provided credits to customers who had overpaid for books due to the price fixing.