The first Indian-origin federal judge in the United States is India Abroad Person of the Year 2013
President Barack Obama calls him one of his “favourite people.”
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the legendary first female Supreme Court Justice in the US, says America is “lucky as a nation to have him now serving as a federal judge.”
Former US Solicitor General Walter Dellinger believes he is “one of the most gifted lawyers of his generation.”
And India Abroad considers him the best of America and India.
For India Abroad the choice of Judge Srikanth Srinivasan as the India Abroad Person of the Year 2013 -- much like his confirmation as a federal judge in the US Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, America’s second highest court -- was unanimous.
Judge Sri catapulted into greatness when, as an Assistant to the Solicitor General, he became the first Indian American to argue before the US Supreme Court in November 2002. He went on to serve as Principal Deputy Solicitor General before becoming the first South Asian American to be nominated as a federal judge in the DC Court of Appeals. He was not only confirmed 97-0 by the US Senate in May 2013, the first confirmation to this court in seven years, but also instantly earned the buzz of a ‘Supreme Court nominee-in-waiting.’
He formally accepted India Abroad’s highest honour Friday evening when the India Abroad Person of the Year Awards returned to The Pierre in New York City, the iconic US flagship of the Taj Hotels, for the fourth consecutive year.
Looking his usual dapper self -- his love for suits, ties and shoes is well known, only second to his love for family and basketball -- Judge Sri charmed the audience as effortlessly as he did last year. The then newly minted judge, humour and humility unmarked by his recent achievement, had opened that awards ceremony posing as his namesake host of the evening, Sree Sreenivasan, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first chief digital officer.
That humour and humility were just as evident this year when in the presence of his children Maya and Vikram, sister Srinija, and mother Saroja he received the award from Preet Bharara, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and US Congressman Ami Bera.
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President Barack Obama calls him one of his “favourite people.”
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the legendary first female Supreme Court Justice in the US, says America is “lucky as a nation to have him now serving as a federal judge.”
Former US Solicitor General Walter Dellinger believes he is “one of the most gifted lawyers of his generation.”
And India Abroad considers him the best of America and India.
For India Abroad the choice of Judge Srikanth Srinivasan as the India Abroad Person of the Year 2013 -- much like his confirmation as a federal judge in the US Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, America’s second highest court -- was unanimous.
Judge Sri catapulted into greatness when, as an Assistant to the Solicitor General, he became the first Indian American to argue before the US Supreme Court in November 2002. He went on to serve as Principal Deputy Solicitor General before becoming the first South Asian American to be nominated as a federal judge in the DC Court of Appeals. He was not only confirmed 97-0 by the US Senate in May 2013, the first confirmation to this court in seven years, but also instantly earned the buzz of a ‘Supreme Court nominee-in-waiting.’
He formally accepted India Abroad’s highest honour Friday evening when the India Abroad Person of the Year Awards returned to The Pierre in New York City, the iconic US flagship of the Taj Hotels, for the fourth consecutive year.
Looking his usual dapper self -- his love for suits, ties and shoes is well known, only second to his love for family and basketball -- Judge Sri charmed the audience as effortlessly as he did last year. The then newly minted judge, humour and humility unmarked by his recent achievement, had opened that awards ceremony posing as his namesake host of the evening, Sree Sreenivasan, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first chief digital officer.
That humour and humility were just as evident this year when in the presence of his children Maya and Vikram, sister Srinija, and mother Saroja he received the award from Preet Bharara, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and US Congressman Ami Bera.
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