Today, President Obama nominated Valerie E. Caproni, Kenneth John Gonzales, Raymond P. Moore, Judge Beverly Reid O’Connell, Judge William L. Thomas, Judge Analisa Torres and Derrick Kahala Watson for District Court judgeships. Valerie E. Caproni : Nominee for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New YorkValerie E. Caproni is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Northrop Grumman Corporation. Previously, she served for eight years as General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Caproni has had a distinguished legal career in both private practice and public service, including stints at the Securities and Exchange Commission, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, the New York State Urban Development Corporation, and the law firms of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Cravath, Swaine & Moore. She began her legal career by clerking for the Honorable Phyllis Kravitch of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals...
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