Robert N. Chatigny

Who is Robert N. Chatigny?

Robert Neil Chatigny is a Federal Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, having served on the court from 1994 to the present. Judge Chatigny was nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton on August 5, 1994, to a seat vacated by Warren W. Eginton, confirmed by the United States Senate on September 28, 1994, and received his commission on September 29, 1994. He has served as chief judge of the court from 2003 to September 2009. Judge Chatigny received an A.B. from Brown University in 1973 and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978, where he was Case and Note Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. He served as a law clerk to three different judges: Samuel Conti of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California; Jose Cabranes of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut; and Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit.

Judge Chatigny was elected to the House of Delegates of the Connecticut Bar Association and has served on the Executive Committee of the Federal Practice Section.