Jed Rakoff

Jed S. Rakoff (1943-) is a judge of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Southern District of New York. He was nominated by Bill Clinton and went onto the bench on January 4, 1996. Previously, he had been in private law practice for 15 years, then in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, as assistant U.S. attorney from 1973 to 1980, and then Chief, Business and Securities Fraud Prosecutions, 1978-1980. Prior to that, he was in private practice for two years.

His undergraduate education was from Swarthmore College (1966); he received a M.Phil from Balliol College of Oxford College (1966); his law degree was from Harvard in 1969, followed by clerking for Judge Abraham Freedman pf the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 1969-1970