--- title: "Myrna Pérez | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/myrna-perez" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-07" --- # Myrna Pérez U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · U.S. Circuit Judge ## Profile - Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit - State: National federal courts - Role: U.S. Circuit Judge - Service status: active - Last verified: 2026-07-25 ## Summary Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge. ## Biography ### Professional career - American federal judge serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit since November 12, 2021 - Pérez has been a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School since 2016 and previously an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law - Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, 2006-2021 - From 2006 to 2021, Pérez was at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, most recently as Director of the Voting Rights and Elections Program - Adjunct professor of clinical law, New York University School of Law, 2013-2015 - Law clerk, Hon. Julio Fuentes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2004-2005 - Law clerk, Hon. Anita B. Brody, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2003-2004 - Judge Julio M. Fuentes (U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Cir.) ### Education - Columbia Law School — J.D. (2003) - M.P.P. — Harvard University — 1998 - Yale College — B.A. (1996) ### Additional information - Nominated by President Joe Biden to replace Judge Denny Chin, who took senior status in June 2021. - received her judicial commission on November 12, 2021. - Director, Voting Rights and Elections Program, 2019-2021 - Lecturer in law, Columbia Law School, 2016-2018, 2020-2021 - Deputy director, Democracy Program, 2013-2019 - Director, Voting Rights and Elections Project, 2013-2019 - Senior counsel, 2011-2013 - Pérez married mechanical engineer Mark Muntzel in 2007. - Civil rights fellow in private practice, Washington, D.C., 2005-2006 - Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Public Service (Harvard Kennedy School, 1998) - Born August 14, 1974, in San Antonio, Texas. - Date of birth: 1974 - Before law school, she was a Presidential Management Fellow and policy analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. - Abbott) blocking Texas’s strict voter ID law. - She led research, advocacy, and litigation on voting rights, co-authoring landmark reports on voter purges and advocating for automatic voter registration. - She has served on nonprofit boards, chaired the Election Law Committee of the NYC Bar Association, and is active in her church and community organizations. - Birth place: San Antonio ## Before you appear - Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed. - Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance. - Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding. ## Courtroom Rules ### appellate oral argument Scope: courtwide In federal courts of appeals, oral argument is allowed unless a three-judge panel unanimously finds one of Rule 34's specified grounds for dispensing with it; the clerk provides the date, time, place, and time allocation. Evidence excerpt: Oral argument must be allowed in every case unless a panel of three judges who have examined the briefs and record unanimously agrees that oral argument is unnecessary [Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-appellate-procedure) Source checked: 2026-07-26 ## Sources - [Official profile](https://www.fjc.gov/node/10924786) - [Official roster](https://www.fjc.gov/node/10924786) - [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/node/10924786) - [Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-appellate-procedure) - [Federal Judicial Center — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges](https://www.fjc.gov/sites/default/files/history/judges.csv) - [Judge Myrna Pérez](https://www.fjc.gov/node/10924786) - [Wikidata: Myrna Pérez](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107251252) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/myrna-perez", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/myrna-perez", "name": "Myrna Pérez | KnowJudges", "description": "Myrna Pérez, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 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