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 issued a temporary restraining order blocking the construction of the military triumphal arch planned by President Trump’s administration. The order came just after the National Capital Planning Commission approved the arch, which is to be located between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.
Judge Chutkan wrote that the District of Columbia and Virginia “have shown that construction of the Arch will cause harm by ‘clogging traffic, impeding disaster preparedness, and harming the environment,’ which will also ‘require both jurisdictions to expend resources to monitor and mitigate those impacts.’” She concluded that “harm is certain,“ and that the jurisdictions “will incur significant unrecoverable costs.“
“These are not self-inflicted costs. When federal action causes a state to undertake ‘expenditures to mitigate and recover from harms that could have been prevented’ absent that action, the state suffers an injury to its proprietary interests,” the judge added.
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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
