Close on the heels of his appointment of Srikant “Sri” Srinivasan as a top appellate court judge in Washington, President Barack Obama has named yet another leading Indian-American attorney, Vince Girdhari Chhabria, for the key post of US District Judge for Northern California.
Chhabria, who received his JD from Boalt Hall School of law at the University of California, Berkeley, is currently Deputy City Attorney for Government litigation in San Francisco. He has previously worked as an associate at the law firm Covington & Burling llP and before that he clerked for Justice Stephen G Breyer of US Supreme Court. Nominating Chhabria along with five others for judicial posts that require Senate confirmation, Obama said: “These men and women have had distinguished legal careers and I am honored to ask them to continue their work as judges on the federal bench.”
lauding Chhabria’s nomination, Nadeem Bezar, President of the North American South Asian Bar Association, said: “This is a proud moment for NASABA as another deserving South Asian has been nominated to the judiciary.”\\ As San Francisco’s Deputy City Attorney, Chhabria, has successfully defended in federal courts a ground-breaking law that required most employers to provide health insurance for their employees or pay a fee for the city to treat them.