1. Ronnie Abrams was born on June 3,1968 and is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
15 Facts About Ronnie Abrams
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Ronnie Abrams's brother, Dan Abrams, is a television personality and internet entrepreneur is chief legal analyst for ABC and the host of Dan Abrams Live on NewsNation.
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Ronnie Abrams received a Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University in 1990.
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From 1998 to 2008, Ronnie Abrams worked as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, where she was Chief of the General Crimes Unit from 2005 to 2007 and Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division from 2007 to 2008.
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Ronnie Abrams received the United States Department of Justice Director's Award for Superior Performance for two cases.
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In 2008, Ronnie Abrams returned to Davis Polk to run its pro bono program.
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Ronnie Abrams had previously worked at the firm as a litigation associate from 1994 to 1998.
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Ronnie Abrams is an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, where she teaches about investigating and prosecuting federal criminal cases.
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand recommended Ronnie Abrams to fill a judicial vacancy on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Ronnie Abrams was nominated to the seat vacated by Judge Lewis A Kaplan, who assumed senior status on February 1,2011.
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Ronnie Abrams has been involved in other criminal justice reform efforts, including the creation of reentry courts in her district.
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In October 2013, Carmen Segarra filed suit against the Federal Reserve in an action Ronnie Abrams presided over, alleging that she was terminated due to reporting to her superiors that the Goldman Sachs Group did not have a firmwide conflict-of-interest policy.
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In January 2017, Ronnie Abrams was assigned to preside over a pending case in which Donald Trump was sued by a nonprofit group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, over an alleged violation by Trump of the Foreign and Domestic Emoluments Clauses of the United States Constitution.
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On July 11,2017, Ronnie Abrams recused herself from the case when her husband, Greg Andres, began talks to join Special Counsel Robert Mueller's staff investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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In June 2018, Ronnie Abrams presided over a trial of individuals charged with helping run a scheme, masterminded by serial fraudster Jason Galanis, to defraud a Native American tribe and multiple pension funds through the issuance of $60 million worth of tribal bonds.