An Indian-American woman Diane Gujarati has been nominated by the United States President Barack Obama to the U.S. District Court bench in New York, the White House has said.

Mr. Obama said in a statement, that, “I am pleased to nominate Diane Gujarati to serve on the United States District Court bench. I am confident she will serve the American people with distinction.”  

The 47-year-old attorney Ms. Gujarati is serving as the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division of the US attorney’s office for the southern district of New York since 2012. After approval from the Senate, she will serve as a federal judge.

She is the daughter of Damodar M Gujarati, a professor of economics at the US Military Academy at West Point. Her father received Ph.D from the University of Chicago in 1965 and M.Com degree from the University of Bombay in 1960.

Her mother is Ruth Pincus Gujarati. A well-known federal prosecutor, she also served as an Assistant US Attorney in the Criminal Division since 1999.

She served as Deputy Chief and then Chief of the White Plains Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, prior to her tenure as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division from 2008 to 2012. Gujarati 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 from 2006 to 2008.

Gujarati’s nomination by Obama to the US District Court bench in New York has been  welcomed by the Indian-American community. Vichal Kumar, president of South-Asian Bar Association, said that, We applaud the Obama administration’s consistent effort to promote the diversity of our judiciary by nominating the exceedingly qualified Diane Gujarati.

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