The U.S. Senate voted unanimously yesterday to confirm Paul Engelmayer, the partner in charge of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr‘s New York office, for a slot on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District. Mr. Engelmayer, 50, is the second person confirmed in the past eight days for the Southern District, after a July 18 vote to confirm J. Paul Oetken, the first openly gay federal judge. Five other Obama nominees for the court are pending, and three of them are scheduled to have their confirmation hearings today.
Mr. Engelmayer has headed WilmerHale’s New York office since 2005, and he has been a partner there since 2000. He was previously chief of the major crimes unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District, where in one of his cases he prosecuted three people for attempting to extort $40 million from the actor Bill Cosby. He also has ties to Washington. He spent two years as an assistant to the U.S. solicitor general, and he is a former clerk to the late Justice Thurgood Marshall and to retired Judge Patricia Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The vote for Mr. Engelmayer, who takes the seat left vacant when Judge Gerard E. Lynch was elevated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, was 98-0.
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