WASHINGTON – A Pakistani-American man has been nominated by US PresidentJoe Biden for the position of a federal judge on the US District Court forthe District of New Jersey.
If confirmed, Zahid Quraishi will be the first Muslim American to serve asa federal district judge.
Quraishi hails from New Jersey and has been a magistrate for three years.
Quraishi was appointed in 2019 to be a magistrate judge in the District ofNew Jersey by the judges he now seeks to join on the bench. He is ofPakistani descent and got his law degree from Rutgers Law School, where hecurrently serves as an adjunct professor.
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An army veteran, Quraishi was a military prosecutor with the JAG Corps anddid deployments in Iraq in 2004 and 2006, according to his Rutgers bio page.
He later worked with the Department of Homeland Security then served as afederal prosecutor in the District of New Jersey.
