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Chandigarh-born poised to make history as US judge

Submitted by Jamie Williamson on Fri, 05/17/2013 – 04:34

Chandigarh-born poised to make history as US judgeWashington, May 17 – Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan has moved a step closer to making history as the first South Asian judge on the US Court of Appeals for the American capital.

Srinivasan, 46, who in August last year was named principal deputy solicitor general of the US, succeeding another Indian American, Neal Kumar Katyal, Thursday won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee.


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