Natasha C. Merle

Natasha C. Merle is an American lawyer from New York who is a nominee to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Natasha Merle
Personal details
EducationUniversity of Texas, Austin (BA)
New York University (JD)

Education

Merle received her Bachelor of Arts in government and Spanish, with honors, from the University of Texas at Austin in 2005 and she graduated, cum laude, with a Juris Doctor from the New York University School of Law in 2008.[1][2]

Merle began her legal career as a law clerk for Judge Robert L. Carter of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2008 to 2009. She also served as a law clerk for Judge John Gleeson of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York from 2012 to 2013. From 2009 to 2011, she was a staff attorney at the Gulf Region Advocacy Center and from 2011 to 2012,[3] where she represented individuals facing re-sentencing on capital murder convictions. Merle was an assistant federal public defender at the Office of the Federal Public Defender.

From 2013 to 2015, Merle was a litigation associate and civil rights fellow at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York. From 2016 to 2021, she served as assistant counsel and then senior counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund ("LDF"). Since 2021, she has been the deputy director of litigation at LDF.[1] As of January 2022, she was lead counsel for NAACP LDF v. Trump. She was also a member of the petitioner team in Buck v. Davis.[2]

Nomination to district court

On January 19, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Merle to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. President Biden nominated Merle to the seat created by 28 U.S.C. 133(b)(1).[4] Her nomination is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On April 27, 2022, a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee.[5]

References
  1. "President Biden Names Thirteenth Round of Judicial Nominees" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. January 19, 2022. Retrieved January 19, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. "Natasha Merle". NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
  3. https://www.peoplesparity.org/unrigthecourts/#list
  4. "Nominations Sent to the Senate" (Press release). Washington, D.C.: The White House. January 19, 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. "Nominations". Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. April 25, 2022.


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