Senate Confirms Furman for Southern District Bench

Jesse M. Furman, 39, the deputy chief of appeals for the Southern District U.S. Attorney’s Office, was confirmed by a 62-34 vote by the U.S. Senate for a slot on the Southern District bench. Mr. Furman, a graduate of Yale Law School, has been a federal prosecutor since 2004. He was a member of the team that successfully litigated a critical pretrial issue in the case of al-Qaida operative Ahmed Ghailani, who was convicted in 2010 in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa. Mr. Furman also was part of the appellate team that successfully argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to uphold the heroin trafficking conviction of Afghan drug lord and tribal leader Bashir Noorzai.

Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Furman worked for several years at Wiggins and Dana in New Haven, Conn. He also once clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter; Judge Jose A. Cabranes, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; and former Southern District Judge Michael B. Mukasey, who became U.S. attorney general under President George W. Bush.