Identity

About Paul A. Engelmayer

Titles and dates come from the Federal Judicial Center, the SDNY chambers page, the December 2025 intern-hiring sheet, and Senate Roll Call 117 Ex. Emphasis is the compiler’s. Identity confidence: high. No competing notable public figure under this exact name was located for this file.

Judge Paul A. Engelmayer. Administrative Office of the United States Courts, February 16, 2017 (Wikimedia Commons; U.S. government work). Used once on this identity page; not repeated as a card grid portrait.

Paul Adam Engelmayer is a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. The name is distinctive. The Federal Judicial Center directory, the court’s official biography page, and the 2011 Senate roll-call identify the same person. This page is identity only. The episodes live in the posts. This is not the biography the court would write for a ceremonial program.

Documented roles

Born. 1961, New York, N.Y. FJC.
Training. Harvard College, B.A., 1983; Harvard Law School, J.D., 1987. Same.
1983–1984. Reporter, Wall Street Journal, New York. Same.
1987–1988. Law clerk, Judge Patricia M. Wald, D.C. Circuit. Same.
1988–1989. Law clerk, Justice Thurgood Marshall. Same.
1989–1994, 1996–1999. AUSA, SDNY; deputy chief appellate attorney (1994); chief, Major Crimes Unit (1996–1999). Same.
1994–1996. Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice. Same.
2000–2011. Private practice, New York City. The SDNY intern-hiring sheet names Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. SDNY PDF.
February 2, 2011. Nominated by President Barack Obama to the Lynch seat. FJC.
July 26, 2011. Senate confirmation, 98–0, Vote 117 Ex. Senate roll-call.
July 27, 2011–present (as of 2026-08-22). Commissioned United States District Judge, S.D.N.Y. FJC; chambers page.

What this site is not

It is not a finding that Judge Engelmayer committed a crime. Articles of impeachment are a House filing, not a conviction and not a removal. A Part I temporary restraining order is not a Supreme Court holding and is not Judge Vargas’s later preliminary injunction. Pre-bench campaign contributions, if they appear on FEC reports, are not a crime. Columnist adjectives (“activist,” “corrupt”) are commentary.

It is not a White House product. It is not lawsuit-proof. Read the posts.