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Denny Chin

Denny Chin is a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York. Judge Chin graduated from Princeton University magna cum laude in 1975 and received his law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1978. After clerking for the Honorable Henry F. Werker, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, he was associated with the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1980 to 1982. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 1982 until 1986. Judge Chin has written decisions in or presided over cases involving the constitutionality of Megan's Law; New York City's denial of a parade permit to the Million Youth March; and a grand jury investigation into the circumstances of a number of President Clinton's presidential pardons. Judge Chin was born in Hong Kong. He was the first and is still the only Asian-American appointed a United States District Judge outside the Ninth Circuit.