Srikanth Srinivasn elected as judge of top US court
New York : Indo-American Srikanth Srinivasan will be the new judge of USA’s appellete court. On Thursday, Senate has appointed his name uninamiously. He has got 97 vote and not a single vote was against him. Srinivasan is the first South Asian to get his honour.
Described as “trailblazer” by US President Barack Obama, Chandigarh-born Srinivasan’s nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was unanimously approved by the Senate with 97 voting in favour.
He received his BA with honours and distinction in 1989 from Stanford University and his JD (Juris Doctor) with distinction in 1995 from Stanford Law School, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and served as an editor of the Stanford Law Review.
He also holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, which he received along with his JD in 1995.
Srinivasan began his legal career by serving as a law clerk for Judge J Harvie Wilkinson on the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1995 to 1996.
For his work, he received the Attorney General’s Award for Excellence in Furthering US National Security in 2003 and the Office of the Secretary of Defence Award for Excellence in 2005.
