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Raymond Joseph Dearie (born 1944) is an American lawyer who is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He also served as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2012 to 2019.

Early life and education

Dearie was born in Rockville Centre, New York, the son of John A. Dearie and Catherine Dearie. John C. Dearie, a former member of the New York State Assembly, is his first cousin. Dearie graduated from Fairfield University, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1966. He received his Juris Doctor from St. John's University School of Law in 1969, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the St. John's Law Review. Dearie received an Alumni Professional Achievement Award from Fairfield University in 1986. He received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, from the St. John's University School of Law, and later delivered the school's commencement speech to the graduating class in 2008.

Career

Dearie began his legal career at Shearman & Sterling in 1969. Dearie subsequently worked as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, where he served in the Appeals Division from 1971 to 1974, as the Chief of the General Crimes Section from 1974 to 1976, Head Chief of the Office's Criminal Division from 1976-1977, and briefly as the Executive Assistant United States Attorney for the District in 1977. He worked in private practice until 1980 before serving as the Chief Assistant United States Attorney until 1982, when he was appointed the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York by President Ronald Reagan, serving from 1982 to 1986, before being appointed to the federal bench, by the recommendation of New York Senator Al D'Amato.

Federal judicial service

Dearie was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on February 3, 1986, to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, to a new seat created by 98 Stat. 333. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 14, 1986, and received his commission on March 19, 1986. He served as Chief Judge from 2007 until 2011. He took senior status on April 3, 2011, and was succeeded by Judge Pamela K. Chen in March 2013. He remained an active judge on the Eastern District Court; according to a court official, he is planning to go on inactive status at the end of 2022.

On July 2, 2012, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Dearie to a seven-year term on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

In September 2022, Dearie was one of two candidates proposed by former President Donald Trump as a special master to review documents seized in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. The United States Department of Justice announced that it would accept him. He was appointed special master by Judge Aileen Cannon on September 15, 2022. On September 23, Dearie ordered Trump's legal defense to submit a sworn declaration supporting their claims that the FBI had planted evidence at Mar-a-Lago.

References

1. Verhovek, Sam Howe (October 6, 1991). "Political Talk: 2 Sides of Issue". The New York Times. p. 34.
2. "Senior Judge Raymond Joseph Dearie's Biography". Vote Smart. March 8, 2013. Archived from the original on June 20, 2013.
3. ^ "Judge Dearie and the Honorable Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the State of New York, to Receive Honorary Doctor of Law Degrees". St John's University School of Law. May 27, 2008. Archived from the original on November 4, 2011.
4. ^ Raymond Dearie at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
5. "Judge Raymond J. Dearie". United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. March 7, 2013.
6. Lynn, Frank (January 17, 1988). "Political Notes; A Successor For Giuliani: A List Grows". The New York Times.
7. Moynihan, Colin; Eligon, John (April 8, 2011). "Federal Judge to Take On New Role". The New York Times.
8. "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate". whitehouse.gov. January 7, 2013 – via National Archives.
9. Hurtado, Patricia; Tillman, Zoe (September 14, 2022). "NY Judge Who Doesn't Tolerate 'Nonsense' May Be Named Special Master in Trump Case". Bloomberg News. Retrieved September 15, 2022.
10. "Roberts appoints Judge Dearie to FISA Court". Associated Press. July 10, 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2022 – via The San Diego Union-Tribune.
11. Shiffman, John; Cooke, Kristina (June 21, 2013). "The judges who preside over America's secret court". Reuters. Archived from the original on June 23, 2013. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
12. Aftergood, Steven (July 10, 2012). "A New Judge For The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court". Secrecy News. Archived from the original on September 16, 2021. Retrieved September 15, 2022.
13. "The Parties' Joint Filing Respecting the Court's Appointment of a Special Master" (PDF). September 9, 2022. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
14. Barrett, Devlin; Stein, Perry (September 12, 2022). "Justice Dept. says it would accept Trump's candidate for special master". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on September 12, 2022. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
15. LeBlanc, Paul (September 16, 2022). "What to know about Raymond Dearie". CNN. Retrieved September 16, 2022.
16. Cohen, Marshall (September 22, 2022). "Mar-a-Lago special master orders Trump team to back up any claims of FBI 'planting' evidence". CNN. Archived from the original on September 22, 2022. Retrieved September 23, 2022.

Sources

• Raymond Dearie at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

• 1944 births
• Living people
• 20th-century American judges
• 21st-century American judges
• Assistant United States Attorneys
• Fairfield University alumni
• Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
• People from Rockville Centre, New York
• St. John's University School of Law alumni
• United States Attorneys for the Eastern District of New York
• United States district court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan