Two new judges will be joining the federal bench in New York following their confirmation yesterday by the U.S. Senate. Lorna Schofield, 56, of counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton, was confirmed for the Southern District bench and Monroe County Court Judge Frank Paul Geraci Jr., 61, was confirmed for the Western District.
Schofield, a 1981 graduate of New York University School of Law, spent three years as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton before becoming a prosecutor in the Southern District from 1984 until 1988. She then moved to Debevoise as an associate and was a litigation partner from 1991 to 2011. She becomes the first Filipino-American to serve as an Article III judge.
