Judge Tanya Chutkan
District of Columbia U.S. District Court
Tanya Sue Chutkan was born in July 1962 in Kingston, Jamaica. She earned an undergraduate degree from George Washington University and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
She went into private practice, then she became a trial attorney and supervisor in the District of Columbia’s Public Defender Service. Chutkan became a partner at a firm, focusing her practice on complex civil litigation cases.
Chutkan was nominated by President Barack Obama to a seat on the District of Columbia U.S. District Court. She was confirmed by the Senate and received her commission in June 2014.
Chutkan is divorced from Peter Krauthamer, with whom she has two sons.
In the News…
Judge Tanya Chutkan of the District of Columbia U.S. District Court stated that, while five migrants who have been removed to Ghana from the U.S. do face the threat of torture or persecution in their home countries, she did not have jurisdiction to overturn their deportation.
Judge Chutkan wrote in her 16-page ruling, “The court does not reach this conclusion lightly,” but her “hands are tied.“
In light of Supreme Court decisions that allow President Trump’s administration to continue the deportation of illegal aliens to third-party countries, Judge Chutkan told the attorneys for the migrants, “There’s no point in getting decisions from me that are immediately going to be stayed.”
Contact this Leader…
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The Honorable Tanya Chutkan
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse
333 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
