Amul Roger Thapar

Amul Roger Thapar ( born April 29, 1969 in Detroit ) is a federal judge in the United States, the first U.S. District Judge of South Asian origin and also currently the youngest judge this level.

Career

Thapar was born in Detroit and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College in 1991 from there. In 1994 he acquired the legal Doctor ( JD) from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. Between 1994 and 1996 worked as a staff attorney at Thapar S. Arthur Spiegel in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District Court of Ohio, and to 1997 in the same capacity under Nathaniel R. Jones at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Judicial District.

Scientific career

Between 1997 and 1999, and from 2002 to 2006, he taught as an assistant professor at the University of Cincinnati College - law. Between 1997 and 1999 he was at the same time as an intern in Washington, DC privately hired. At the local Georgetown University, he worked in the right - center also 1999-2000 as manager of Procedural Law. As U.S. Attorney, he was in Washington, D.C. 1999-2000 worked from 2000 to 2001 as General Counsel for the company Equalfooting. The established lawyer Thapar in Cincinnati, Ohio worked from 2001 to 2002. Subsequently, he returned as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Ohio, where he remained until 2006. As U.S. Attorney, he then moved to the Eastern District of Kentucky and served there until 2007.

Jurisdiction

During his time as an assistant U.S. attorney Thapar was appointed ( General's Advisory Committee ( " AGAC " ) Attorney ) in the staatsanwatlichen Advisory Committee, where he chaired the Subcommittee on confiscation and asset management. He was also a member of the subcommittees on terrorism and national security, violent crime and child abuse operates.

President George W. Bush appointed him on 24 May 2007 as the successor of Judge Joseph M. Hood of the U.S. Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on 13 December 2007 and received his certificate of appointment on January 4, 2008. His official offices are in Covington, Kentucky outside of Cincinnati, as well as in London, Kentucky, and also in Pikeville, Kentucky. At the same time to his judicial office had Thapar as an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University Law School, University of Virginia School of Law, and the Northern Kentucky University and a visiting scientist of the Federalist Society program.

International attention

2013 attracted a process in the Eastern District of Tennessee attention, was used in the Thapar as the representative judge. In the process, the three peace activists were accused of being invaded in July 2012 in the highly secured uranium - enrichment high- range Y -12 National Security Complex near Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The defendants, of which the oldest was 84 years old, were sentenced to three years in prison and taken into custody. , Thapar explained this so that it constitutes a Federal crime of terrorism in this case.

In one of the defendants it was the 84 -year-old pacifist nun Megan Rice, who wanted to make you aware of safety deficiencies in the weapons complex with their act. As a tool it had a flashlight and a bolt cutter used. The other two activists were sentenced to five years, because it was not her first offense. Contrary to the request of the defense to a lenient sentence due to the demonstrated good will, Thapar sentenced a deterrent sentence to deter other activists.

Documents

Swell

  • Vanderbilt Law profiles.
  • UVA Law profiles.
  • Northern Kentucky University profile.
  • Knoxville News Sentinel article, 5/11/2013.
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  • Attorney (United States)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1969
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