--- title: "Raymond Joseph Lohier Jr. | KnowJudges" canonical: "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/raymond-joseph-lohier-jr" page_type: "judge_profile" updated: "2026-10-07" --- # Raymond Joseph Lohier Jr. 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 - Judge, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2010-present - Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York, 2000-2010 - U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (1997–2000) as a Senior Trial Attorney, leading employment discrimination litigation - Private practice at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton (1991–1992, 1993–1997) - Law clerk, Hon. Robert P. Patterson, Jr., U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1992-1993 - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit - He clerked for Judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ### Education - New York University School of Law in, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the NYU Annual Survey of American Law and recipient of the Vanderbilt Medal — J.D. (1991) - Harvard University — B.A. (1988) - Lohier grew up in Montreal and later moved to the U.S. He graduated cum laude from Harvard College (A.B., 1988) ### Additional information - As Chief Judge (since 2026), Lohier presides over the Second Circuit’s 220 panel seats and continues to author opinions and sit on panels in a wide range of cases. - Nominated by President Barack Obama on March 10, 2010, Lohier was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on December 19, 2010, and commissioned the next day. - senior trial attorney, 1998-2000 - Private practice, New York City, 1993-1997 - Private practice, New York City, 1991-1992 - Date of birth: 1965-01-01 - He became the first Haitian-American to serve as an Article III federal judge and to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate in that role. - Friends' Central School - He is also a member of the American Law Institute, Federal Bar Council Inns of Court, and NYU School of Law Board of Trustees, and serves as an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law. - Birth place: Montreal, Canada ## 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/1393561) - [Official roster](https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393561) - [Federal Judicial Center biography](https://www.fjc.gov/node/1393561) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/1958/raymond-joseph-lohier-jr/) - [Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 34, Oral Argument](https://www.uscourts.gov/forms-rules/current-rules-practice-procedure/federal-rules-appellate-procedure) - [CourtListener judicial biographical directory](https://www.courtlistener.com/person/1958/raymond-joseph-lohier-jr/) - [Wikidata: Raymond Lohier](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7298967) ## JSON-LD ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/raymond-joseph-lohier-jr", "url": "https://knowjudges.com/kyj/judge/raymond-joseph-lohier-jr", "name": "Raymond Joseph Lohier Jr. | KnowJudges", "description": "Raymond Joseph Lohier Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 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