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Amit Mehta
Amit Priyavadan Mehta (born 1971) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He was appointed in 2014 by President Barack Obama. In 2021, Mehta became a judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Mehta presided over cases related to attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, and the Google antitrust case. In 2022, he rejected efforts by Donald Trump to dismiss lawsuits accusing the former President of legal responsibility in the attacks.
Mehta was born in 1971 in Patan, Gujarat, India. At the age of one, Mehta immigrated with his parents, Priyavadan and Ragini Mehta, to the United States. His mother worked as a laboratory technician, while his father worked as an engineer. Mehta was raised in Reisterstown, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. He graduated from Franklin High School in 1989.
Mehta graduated from Georgetown University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. From 1993 to 1994, Mehta worked as a paralegal at the law firm Patton Boggs (now Squire Patton Boggs). He then attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an editor of the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. He graduated in 1997 with a Juris Doctor and Order of the Coif honors.
After graduating from law school, Mehta spent a year as an associate at the law firm Latham & Watkins before leaving to be a law clerk to Judge Susan P. Graber of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1998 to 1999. He was an associate at the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP from 1999 to 2002, then became a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia from 2002 to 2007.
From 2007 to 2014, he rejoined Zuckerman Spaeder, serving as partner from 2010 to 2014. He represented clients in civil and criminal matters before state and federal courts. While in the private sector, he represented former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
On July 31, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Mehta to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to the seat vacated by Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, who took senior status on June 3, 2014. He received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on September 17, 2014. On November 20, 2014, his nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote. On December 13, 2014, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination.
On December 16, 2014, Reid withdrew his cloture motion on Mehta's nomination, and the Senate proceeded to vote to confirm Mehta in a voice vote. He received his federal judicial commission on December 19, 2014.
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Amit Mehta
Amit Priyavadan Mehta (born 1971) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He was appointed in 2014 by President Barack Obama. In 2021, Mehta became a judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
Mehta presided over cases related to attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, and the Google antitrust case. In 2022, he rejected efforts by Donald Trump to dismiss lawsuits accusing the former President of legal responsibility in the attacks.
Mehta was born in 1971 in Patan, Gujarat, India. At the age of one, Mehta immigrated with his parents, Priyavadan and Ragini Mehta, to the United States. His mother worked as a laboratory technician, while his father worked as an engineer. Mehta was raised in Reisterstown, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. He graduated from Franklin High School in 1989.
Mehta graduated from Georgetown University in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. From 1993 to 1994, Mehta worked as a paralegal at the law firm Patton Boggs (now Squire Patton Boggs). He then attended the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was an editor of the Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law. He graduated in 1997 with a Juris Doctor and Order of the Coif honors.
After graduating from law school, Mehta spent a year as an associate at the law firm Latham & Watkins before leaving to be a law clerk to Judge Susan P. Graber of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1998 to 1999. He was an associate at the law firm Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP from 1999 to 2002, then became a staff attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia from 2002 to 2007.
From 2007 to 2014, he rejoined Zuckerman Spaeder, serving as partner from 2010 to 2014. He represented clients in civil and criminal matters before state and federal courts. While in the private sector, he represented former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
On July 31, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Mehta to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to the seat vacated by Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, who took senior status on June 3, 2014. He received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on September 17, 2014. On November 20, 2014, his nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote. On December 13, 2014, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination.
On December 16, 2014, Reid withdrew his cloture motion on Mehta's nomination, and the Senate proceeded to vote to confirm Mehta in a voice vote. He received his federal judicial commission on December 19, 2014.