Jorge Alberto Rodriguez

Jorge Alberto Rodriguez (born 1978/1979) is an American lawyer serving as an assistant attorney general in the Office of the Attorney General of New York. He is a nominee to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.
Education
Rodriguez earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vanderbilt University in 2000 and a Juris Doctor from the Vanderbilt University Law School in 2004.
Career
Rodriguez worked as an associate at Mahoney & Keane in New York City from 2005 to 2010 and Deily & Glastetter in Albany from 2010 to 2014, where he focused on corporate law. He joined the Office of the Attorney General of New York as an assistant attorney general in 2014, working in the Civil Recoveries Bureau and then the Litigation Bureau. Rodriguez worked as the Treasurer and Second Vice President of the Capital District Black & Hispanic Bar Association, and worked on the character and fitness committee of the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division. In 2021, Rodriguez was tasked with defending New York Governor Kathy Hochul's mask mandates in school against a federal lawsuit brought by a group of parents.
Nomination to district court
On July 13, 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Rodriguez to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. President Biden nominated Rodriguez to the seat vacated by Judge David N. Hurd, who will take senior status upon confirmation of a successor. His nomination is pending before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
On July 14, 2022, one day after President Biden nominated Rodriguez of Clifton Park, an Albany-based assistant attorney general, Hurd wrote another letter to President Biden. In the letter, Hurd wrote “Please be advised that I immediately rescind my decision to take senior status as a United States District Judge for the Northern District of New York". “I will take senior status if a confirmed successor lives in this area and is permanently assigned to the United States Courthouse in Utica, New York. Otherwise, I shall remain on full-time active status until I retire or die.” On August 8, 2022, Kirsten Gillibrand's chief of staff Jess Fassler said “It has always been the expectation that Judge Hurd’s successor would sit in the Utica courthouse, and Jorge Rodriguez has committed to doing so”. On August 10, 2022, Judge Hurd wrote a letter to Biden to officially rescind his senior status and remain in active service.

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