Barrington Daniels Parker Jr.

Barrington Parker
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In office
October 16, 2001  October 10, 2009
Appointed by George W. Bush
Preceded by Ralph Winter
Succeeded by Susan Carney
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
In office
April 26, 1994  October 16, 2001
Appointed by Bill Clinton
Preceded by Leonard Sand
Succeeded by Richard Holwell
Personal details
Born (1944-08-21) August 21, 1944
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma mater

Yale University

Yale Law School

Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. (born August 21, 1944 in Washington, D.C.) is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Background

Prior to his elevation to the Second Circuit, Parker had been a U.S. District Judge for seven years for the Southern District of New York. President Bill Clinton appointed him to that position on September 15, 1994. Before that, Parker had been in private practice as an attorney in New York City for 24 years, from 1970 to 1994. His first legal job was as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Aubrey E. Robinson Jr. on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 1969-1970. Parker's father, Barrington Daniels Parker Sr., was a judge on that court as well, from 1969 to 1993. He was also a partner at Parker Auspitz Neesemann & Delehanty and Morrison & Foerster and an associate at Sullivan and Cromwell.

Parker studied at Yale, where he received a B.A. in 1965. He received an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1969. He serves on the Yale Corporation, the university's board of trustees. He also was a member of St. Elmo, a secret society at Yale.

Nomination and confirmation

Parker was initially nominated to that court by President George W. Bush on May 9, 2001, to fill a seat vacated by Judge Ralph K. Winter. However, the then Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate returned Parker's nomination just a few months later without considering it. Bush then renominated Parker, along with many other previously returned nominees, on September 4, 2001. This time, the Senate confirmed Parker's nomination a little over a month later, on October 11, 2001, by a vote of 100–0. Parker was the first judge Bush appointed to the Second Circuit.

The fact that Parker had earlier been appointed to the U.S. District Court by President Bill Clinton in 1994 may explain the speed with which the then Democratic-controlled Senate confirmed Parker's promotion to the Second Circuit. Parker is one of only a few judges to be appointed to the federal bench by a President and then later promoted by a President from an opposing political party. Third Circuit Judge Maryanne Trump Barry is another example, as are fellow Second Circuit Judge Jon O. Newman and former Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor (who is now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States), the late Second Circuit Judge Fred I. Parker, Seventh Circuit Judge Ann Claire Williams, Eleventh Circuit Judge Stanley Marcus, and the late Tenth Circuit Judge William E. Doyle.

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Legal offices
Preceded by
Leonard Sand
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
1994–2001
Succeeded by
Richard Holwell
Preceded by
Ralph Winter
Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
2001–2009
Succeeded by
Susan Carney
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