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Nancy Gertner was born on 22 May, 1946 in New York City, U.S., is an American judge. Discover Nancy Gertner's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 22 May 1946
Birthday 22 May
Birthplace New York City, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1946

Nancy Gertner (born May 22, 1946) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

1967

Gertner received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Barnard College of Columbia University in 1967 and a Master of Arts and a Juris Doctor from Yale University and Yale Law School, respectively, in 1971.

While attending Yale, Gertner became friends with Hillary Rodham and met Bill Clinton.

1971

Gertner began her legal career in 1971 as a law clerk for Judge Luther Swygert of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

1972

Between 1972 and 1994, she practiced law in and around the Greater Boston area with Harvey Silverglate and Thomas Shapiro at Silverglate, Shapiro & Gertner, during which she also taught at Boston University School of Law and was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.

During this period, Gertner was notable for being a supporter of liberalism and feminist ideals, wearing bright red clothes in court, carrying her legal briefs in shopping bags and keeping files on lawyers and judges she felt to be sexist.

1980

Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Alan Dershowitz and others have asserted that Robert Mueller was responsible for the improper imprisonment of four men when he was a federal prosecutor in Boston during the 1980s.

In an opinion piece entitled "Smearing Robert Mueller", Gertner, who presided over the matter, wrote "[t]he record simply doesn't support these assertions".

Gertner is to date the only Massachusetts judge to post to a personal blog.

Though this has resulted in some criticism, Gertner maintains that judges are often too silent on issues they should publicly address.

1993

On October 27, 1993, on the recommendations of Senators Ted Kennedy and John Kerry, Gertner was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts by President Bill Clinton to a seat vacated by A. David Mazzone.

The case interpreted new admissibility standards for expert testimony set forth by the Supreme Court in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 (1993) and Kumho Tire Co. v. Carmichael, 526 U.S. 137 (1999).

1994

Gertner was confirmed by the Senate on February 10, 1994, and received her commission on February 14, 1994.

The book focuses on the period during which she worked as a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer before joining the Federal bench in 1994.

Gertner is married to John Reinstein, former Legal Director for the Massachusetts ACLU.

1999

2d 62 (D.Mass. 1999), a case regarding the admissibility of expert testimony, that (i) a handwriting expert could testify to similarities between handwriting samples but not state an opinion about whether the same person wrote both notes, and (ii) expert witness testimony regarding the reliability of eyewitness testimony, including problems of cross-racial identification, was admissible.

2007

On July 26, 2007, she ordered the federal government to pay a record $101.7 million for withholding evidence that could have exculpated four men wrongfully convicted of murder.

The men had been falsely accused by mob hitman Joseph "The Animal" Barboza, with the help of corrupt FBI agent H. Paul Rico.

2009

The government appealed the award, which was upheld in 2009 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Judge Gertner presided over Sony BMG v. Tenenbaum, a civil trial in which the Recording Industry Association of America accused Joel Tenenbaum, a Massachusetts college student, of illegally downloading and sharing files, thus violating U.S. copyright law.

In July 2009, a jury awarded $675,000 to the music companies, but Judge Gertner later reduced the award to $67,500, stating that arbitrarily high statutory damages violate due process and are thus unconstitutional.

After both parties appealed, the First Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the original damage award of $675,000 and remanded the case to the District Court, ruling that the judge should have avoided the constitutional issue by first considering remittitur.

The Supreme Court refused to hear Tenenbaum's appeal arguing against the remand.

A new District Court judge then found no cause for remittitur, and held that the statutory damage award was constitutional.

2011

She assumed senior status on May 22, 2011, and retired outright from the federal bench on September 1, 2011.

She is now a professor of practice at Harvard Law School.

Gertner was born in New York City, the granddaughter of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Hungary.

Her father, Moishe Gertner, owned a linoleum business; her mother Sadie Gertner was a housewife.

Her family lived in a tenement until she was seven years old, when they moved to Flushing, New York.

At Flushing High School she was a cheerleader, a member of the staff of her high school's literary magazine, runner-up for homecoming queen, and valedictorian of her class.

Gertner assumed senior status on May 22, 2011, and retired on September 1, 2011.

After retiring from the bench, Gertner was appointed a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School.

She was named a member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States by President Joe Biden on April 9, 2021.

Gertner ruled in U.S. v. Hines, 55 F.Supp.

Gertner published her memoirs, In Defense of Women: Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate, in 2011.

2013

Tenenbaum again appealed to the First Circuit, which in June 2013 upheld the award.

As a defense attorney, she defended Brandeis University student and fugitive Susan Saxe, who stole money to finance the student strikes during the Vietnam era.

Gertner describes the Saxe trial as her first big case.

2015

In October 2015, Gertner became the subject of media attention in the Boston area when an escaped cockatoo did considerable damage to her Brookline residence, a historic Victorian home which also happened to be the birthplace of Robert F. Kennedy.

After eluding capture for several months, the bird was caught on October 22.