Analisa Nadine Torres (born 1959) is a
United States district judge
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of the
.
Early life and education
Analisa Torres's father, Frank Torres, served for many years as a
New York Supreme Court
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justice in
the Bronx
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, and as a Democratic member of the
New York State Assembly
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The Ass ...
; and her grandfather
Felipe N. Torres (d. 1994) served as a Family Court judge and was also an assemblyman.
Torres received her
B.A.
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degree, ''
magna cum laude
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'', in 1981 from
Harvard College
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and her
Juris Doctor
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in 1984 from
Columbia Law School
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The school was founded in 1858 as the Columbia College Law School. The un ...
.
Career
Torres spent the early portion of her legal career as a real estate associate at three
New York City
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law firms (
Kaye Scholer
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from 1984 to 1985,
Coudert Brothers
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History
The firm was established in 1853 in New York by three sons of Charles Coudert Sr.: Frederic René Coudert Sr., Charles Co ...
from 1985 to 1987, and
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler from 1988 to 1992). From 1992 to 1999, she clerked for Justice Elliot Wilk of the New York Supreme Court; she served as a commissioner of the
New York City Planning Commission
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from 1993 to 1995. From 2000 to 2002, Torres was a judge of the
New York City Criminal Court
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. From 2003 to 2004, she was a judge on the
New York City Civil Court. She served as an acting justice of the New York Supreme Court in the Bronx from 2004 to 2009, and became an elected justice of that court in 2010, handling criminal felony cases, serving until 2013.
Federal judicial service
On November 14, 2012, President
Barack Obama
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nominated Torres to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York, to the seat vacated by Judge
Naomi Reice Buchwald, who assumed senior status on March 21, 2012.
On January 2, 2013, Torres's nomination was returned to the President, due to the
sine die
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adjournment of the Senate. On January 3, 2013, she was renominated to the same office. Her nomination was reported by the
Senate Judiciary Committee
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on February 14, 2013, by
voice vote
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.
The Senate confirmed Torres's nomination on April 18, 2013, by voice vote. She received her commission on April 23, 2013.
See also
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List of African American federal judges
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List of African American jurists
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List of Hispanic and Latino American jurists
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1959 births
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