Judge Carol Bagley Amon will become the first woman chief judge of the Eastern District when she succeeds Judge Raymond J. Dearie on April 3, when he takes senior status. Judge Dearie, 66, has been the court’s chief judge for the last four years. Before being appointed to the bench in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, he had been the Eastern District U.S. attorney since 1982.
Judge Amon, 64, was appointed to the bench by President George H.W. Bush in 1990. Before her appointment, she was a U.S. magistrate judge in the Eastern District for four years. She also was an Eastern District prosecutor for 12 years, having served as chief of two bureaus, general crimes and frauds. “All of us in the Eastern District are grateful to Judge Dearie for his exemplary leadership over the past four years and I am honored to follow him as chief judge of this great court,” she said yesterday.
