Appointed By: Judges of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
The Hon. Valerie Figueredo is a magistrate on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She was appointed to the bench by the judges of the Southern District of New York in 2022.
Prior to her appointment, Figueredo was an assistant district attorney with the New York County District Attorney’s Office, a position to which she was named in 2017. Before that, she spent time as an assistant solicitor general for the New York State Attorney General’s Office (2012 to 2017) as well as an associate at Shapiro, Arato & Isserles (2011 to 2012).
Figueredo earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and political science from the University of Miami in 2003. She then completed a J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School in 2006. She is licensed to practice in New York (2007).
After graduating from law school, Figueredo was a judicial law clerk to the Hon. R. Guy Cole, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. She served in that capacity until 2007, at which time she entered into private practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Then, in 2010, she became a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Colleen McMahon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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