ALUMNI PROFILE
Garaufis Named Federal Judge

Nick Garaufis ’69 was nominated by President Bill Clinton, upon the recommendation of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, to serve as a United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York, and on May 24 the Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination.

After graduating from the Law School in 1974, Garaufis began his legal career with Chadbourne & Parke and served as an assistant attorney general in the litigation bureau of the New York State Attorney General’s office under Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz. He practiced law privately in Queens and was counsel to Queens Borough President Claire Shulman for nine years before most recently serving as chief counsel of the Federal Aviation Administration—quite fitting for someone whose career has clearly taken off.