U.S. Senator Charles Schumer yesterday recommended Gregory Woods, the U.S. Department of Energy’s general counsel, for a seat on the Southern District bench. Woods, 43, joined the government in 2009, when he was named deputy general counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation. Before that, he was a partner at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York focusing on U.S. and Latin America corporate and financial matters. He also was a member of the firm’s hiring, diversity and pro bono committees, Schumer said in a press release.
A Harlem native who earned his J.D. in 1995 from Yale Law School, Woods began his career as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. He left the agency in 1998 to join Debevoise as an associate.
