[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 195 (Tuesday, November 28, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S5622]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                   Nomination of Margaret M. Garnett

  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, today, the Senate will vote to confirm 
Margaret M. Garnett to the U.S. District Court for the Southern 
District of New York.
  Born in Brooklyn, NY, Ms. Garnett earned her B.A. from the University 
of Notre Dame in 1992, her M.A. and M. Phil. from Yale University in 
1995 and 1997, and her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2000. Ms. 
Garnett began her legal career working as an associate at Wachtell, 
Lipton, Rosen & Katz from 2000 to 2004, where she focused on bankruptcy 
litigation. She then clerked for the Honorable Gerald E. Lynch on the 
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2004 to 
2005. Following her clerkship, Ms. Garnett joined the U.S. Attorney's 
Office for the Southern District of New York, where she would go on to 
rise in the ranks throughout her 15-year tenure with the office. 
Although she presently serves as special counsel, Ms. Garnet has also 
served the Office as Deputy United States Attorney, Chief of Appeals, 
Deputy Chief of Appeals, Chief of the Violent and Organized Crime 
Units, Deputy Chief of the Violent Crimes Unit, and assistant United 
States attorney. From 2017 to 2018, Ms. Garnett served in the Office of 
the New York Attorney General, serving as the executive deputy attorney 
general for criminal justice.
  In 2018, Ms. Garnett was nominated by the mayor of New York City and 
confirmed by the New York City Council to serve as the Commissioner of 
the New York City Department of Investigation, an agency charged with 
investigating individual and systemic corruption, waste, fraud, and 
abuse in city government. A substantial majority of the American Bar 
Association's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary rated Ms. 
Garnett as ``well qualified,'' and her nomination is strongly supported 
by her home State Senators, Mr. Schumer and Mrs. Gillibrand.
  With deep ties to the Southern District of New York and significant 
experience working on criminal matters, Ms. Garnett will serve on the 
bench with distinction. I am proud to support her nomination and urge 
my colleagues to do the same.