Zahid Quraishi, a partner, white-collar defense chairman and chief diversity officer at Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti, has been appointed U.S. magistrate judge in the District of New Jersey’s Trenton vicinage.

The appointment was announced on Monday in a news release from Riker Danzig, which says Quraishi becomes the first Asian American to sit on the federal bench in state history.