Allyne R. Ross | |
Office: | Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
Term Start: | April 5, 2011 |
Office1: | Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
Term Start1: | September 29, 1994 |
Term End1: | April 5, 2011 |
Appointer1: | Bill Clinton |
Predecessor1: | I. Leo Glasser |
Successor1: | Margo Kitsy Brodie |
Office2: | Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York |
Term Start2: | 1986 |
Term End2: | 1994 |
Birth Date: | 5 April 1946 |
Education: | Wellesley College (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
Allyne Ronna Ross[1] (born April 5, 1946) [2] is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Born in New York City, Ross received a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College in 1967 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1970. She was a staff attorney to the Boston Legal Assistance Project from 1970 to 1971, and was in private practice of law in New York City from 1971 to 1976. She was an attorney in the United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York, from 1976 to 1986, and was an assistant United States attorney from 1976 to 1983. She was in the Appeals Division from 1983 to 1986. She was a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 1986 to 1994.[3]
On July 22, 1994, Ross was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York vacated by Judge I. Leo Glasser who assumed senior status on July 1, 1993. Ross was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 28, 1994, and received her commission on September 29, 1994. She assumed senior status on April 5, 2011.
At the time of her nomination, she was married to her husband Joel Henry Goldberg. The couple have one child and lived in Scarsdale, New York.