Peggy Kuo announced as U.S. magistrate judge for Eastern District of NY
Chief Judge Carol Bagley Amon is pleased to announce the investiture of Peggy Kuo as U.S. magistrate judge for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Kuo will be sworn in at the Theodore Roosevelt Courthouse in Brooklyn on Tuesday, Jan. 5 at 5 p.m.
Judge Kuo is the first Taiwanese-American federal judge in New York. Before her appointment, Kuo was the deputy commissioner and general counsel of the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, the largest municipal tribunal in the country. Previously, she was chief hearing officer at the New York Stock Exchange, where she was in charge of disciplinary matters involving violations of federal securities laws. She was also litigation counsel at WilmerHale, LLP.
From 1998 to 2002, Kuo prosecuted war crimes at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague. Her historic trial regarding mass rape in Bosnia later became the topic of the documentary film “I Came to Testify.”