DODD, LIEBERMAN STATEMENT ON NOMINATION OF JUDGE CHATIGNY TO SECOND CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) released the following statement today on President Obama’s nomination of Judge Robert Chatigny to serve on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

“In his capacity as the Chief Judge of the District of Connecticut, Judge Chatigny has consistently demonstrated his impressive legal abilities and a profound commitment to the rule of law,” said Dodd and Lieberman. “We are confident that Judge Chatigny will be an outstanding addition to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and we will work together to ensure his swift confirmation by the United States Senate.”

More information from the White House about Judge Robert Chatigny is below:

Judge Robert N. Chatigny: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Judge Robert Neil Chatigny has served as a U.S. District Judge for the District of Connecticut since 1994.  He was Chief Judge of the Court from 2003 to 2009.  Judge Chatigny is being nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Judge Chatigny was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, and raised in upstate New York.  He graduated from Brown University in 1973 and Georgetown University Law Center in 1978, where he was Case & Note Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.

After graduation, Judge Chatigny served as a Law Clerk to District Judge Samuel Conti (Northern District of California), Judge José A. Cabranes (then of the District of Connecticut), and Circuit Judge Jon O. Newman (Second Circuit).  After clerking, Judge Chatigny spent two years at the law firm of Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C.  He returned to Connecticut in 1984 to start his own litigation practice.

Judge Chatigny has served on the Judicial Council for the Second Circuit and the Federal-State Judicial Council of Connecticut.  He has been active in the Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court and the Connecticut Bar Association, including as an elected member to its House of Delegates and on the Executive Committee of its Federal Practice Section.  In 2008, he received the Children’s Justice Award from the Center for Children’s Advocacy at the University of Connecticut School of Law.

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