President Biden Nominates Judge Sanket J. Bulsara for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- The 46-year-old Indian American expert in securities, contracts, bankruptcy and regulatory matters, is currently a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York.
President Biden has nominated Judge Sanket J. Bulsara for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Currently a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York, the 46-year-old is an expert in securities, contracts, bankruptcy and regulatory matters. He has “presided over 400 settlement conferences, numerous bench and jury trials, and authored over 300 published opinions,” according to his profile. He was appointed to the post in 2017, making him the first South Asian American federal judge to serve on any court in the Second Circuit.
New York Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand support Bulsara’s nomination. Calling him a “first-rate legal mind and a dedicated, talented public servant,” Schumer described him as “the epitome of the American Dream and a history maker.” The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association also lauded the nomination. “The South Asian population is one of the fastest growing in New York City, representing four percent of the population,” said Priya Purandare, Executive Director of NAPABA. “President Biden’s nomination and Senator Schumer and Gillibrand’s recommendation of Judge Bulsara recognize the importance of having a judiciary representative of the community.”
Before his appointment to the Eastern District of New York, he served as the Acting General Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he had been the Deputy General Counsel for Appellate Litigation, Adjudication, and Enforcement since 2015. Before that, he worked at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr L.L.P. as an associate, a counsel, and a partner.
For six months between 2007 and 2008, he served as a Special Assistant District Attorney at the Kings County (Brooklyn) District Attorney’s Office and he worked as an associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson L.L.P. in Los Angeles, California. He served as a law clerk for Judge John G. Koeltl on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude, in 2002 and his A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1998.
He was born in Bronx, New York, to immigrant parents from India and Kenya. The family later moved to New Rochelle and Edgemont, New York. His father worked as an engineer for the City of New York, while his mother served as a nurse. Bulsara currently lives on Long Island, with his wife, Christine DeLorenzo.
