Eric Nicholas Vitaliano

Who is Eric Nicholas Vitaliano?

Eric Nicholas Vitaliano is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Judge Vitaliano received a B.A. from Fordham College in 1968 and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 1971. After law school, Vitaliano clerked for United States District Judge Mark A. Constantino of the Eastern District of New York, and worked for seven years for the prestigious Manhattan law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. From 1979 to 1981 he served as Chief of Staff to Congressman John M. Murphy.

He was elected to the New York State Assembly in 1982 and represented the 59th and 60th Assembly Districts in Staten Island as a conservative Democrat from 1983 until 2001, when he was elected to serve as a judge of the Civil Court. In 2004 he became a State Supreme Court justice, and in 2005 he was recommended to the Eastern District bench by Senator Charles Schumer. He was officially nominated to the court by President George W. Bush on October 6, 2005, to a seat vacated by Arthur D. Spatt, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 21, 2005, and received his commission on January 19, 2006.