The Honorable Reena Raggi, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, will present the University of Wisconsin Law School's fifteenth annual Thomas E. Fairchild Lecture on Friday, May 2, 2003 at 4 p.m. in Godfrey & Kahn Hall ( Room 2260). Judge Raggi's topic is "The Role of the District Courts."

The Fairchild Lectureship was established at the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1988, as a tribute to Judge Fairchild, a 1937 UW Law School graduate, former Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, later Chief Judge and now Senior Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Initiated by Judge Fairchild's clerks, the lectureship brings a distinguished member of the legal profession -- from the bench, bar or academia -- to speak on a topic of importance to the profession.

Judge Reena Raggi serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She served as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York from 1987 until being appointed to the Second Circuit in October 2002.

Judge Raggi earned her B.A. degree in 1973, from Wellesley College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. degree cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1976. Judge Raggi was a law clerk to Judge Thomas E. Fairchild of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1976 to 1977.

From 1977 to 1979, Judge Raggi was in private practice as an associate with the New York law firm of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel. She served as an assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York from 1979 to 1986, including assignments as chief of the Narcotics Division (1982 to 1984) and chief of the Special Prosecutions Division (1984 to 1986). In 1986, she served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York under an interim court appointment. Later that year, she resumed the private practice of law as a partner with the New York firm of Windels, Marx, Davies & Ives. She remained there until her judicial appointment in 1987.

For more information, call (608) 262-3833 or send an e-mail to Lynn Thompson, LFTHOMP1@facstaff.wisc.edu .

Submitted by on April 18, 2003

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