Who appointed Amit Priyavadan Mehta?

President Barack Obama appointed Amit Priyavadan Mehta to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2014.

Was Amit Priyavadan Mehta appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Amit Priyavadan Mehta was appointed by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Amit Priyavadan Mehta's confirmation vote?

Amit Priyavadan Mehta was confirmed by voice vote on December 16, 2014. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

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Amit Priyavadan Mehta

Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2014 and confirmed by voice vote, Amit Priyavadan Mehta is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He earned a law degree from University of Virginia School of Law in 1997. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1971 · age 55
Appointed by: Barack Obama, 2014
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Georgetown 1993 · University of Virginia Law 1997
Succeeded: Ellen Segal Huvelle

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	District of Columbia succeeded Ellen Segal Huvelle	Obama (D)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Georgetown University	B.A.	1993
University of Virginia School of Law	J.D.	1997

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Mehta was assigned 1,961 district-court cases (1977–2026). Median time from filing to termination: 218 days across 1,364 closed cases.

Other federal statutes28%

Other civil matters24%

Criminal16%

Civil rights9%

Immigration5%

Personal-injury torts4%

Other14%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 166 of Mehta’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 117 were affirmed, 37 reversed or vacated, and 12 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Mehta authored 864 published opinions for the court (2015–2026). Most cited: McNair v. D.C. Department of Employment Services (52 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2016	McNair v. D.C. Department of Employment Services	213 F. Supp. 3d 81	52
2015	Long v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement	149 F. Supp. 3d 39	47
2017	EIG Energy Fund XIV, L.P. v. Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.	246 F. Supp. 3d 52	32
2016	Stansell v. Republic of Cuba	217 F. Supp. 3d 320	29
2016	Jouanny v. Embassy of France in the United States	220 F. Supp. 3d 34	28
2015	Blakeney v. O'Donnell	117 F. Supp. 3d 6	27
2016	National Parks Conservation Association v. United States Forest Service	177 F. Supp. 3d 1	26
2015	Federal Trade Commission v. Sysco Corporation	113 F. Supp. 3d 1	26
2015	Burnett v. American Federation of Government Employees	102 F. Supp. 3d 183	22
2015	Bell Ex Rel. Estate of Sweptson v. District of Columbia	82 F. Supp. 3d 151	22
2017	United Student Aid Funds, Incorporated v. Duncan	237 F. Supp. 3d 1	19
2017	Crowley v. Vilsack	236 F. Supp. 3d 326	19
2016	Philip Morris USA Inc. v. United States Food and Drug Administration	156 F. Supp. 3d 36	19
2017	Center for Public Integrity v. U.S. Department of Energy	234 F. Supp. 3d 65	16
2016	Akinsinde v. Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation	216 F. Supp. 3d 33	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 864 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

Who appointed Amit Priyavadan Mehta?: President Barack Obama appointed Amit Priyavadan Mehta to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in 2014.
Was Amit Priyavadan Mehta appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Amit Priyavadan Mehta was appointed by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Amit Priyavadan Mehta's confirmation vote?: Amit Priyavadan Mehta was confirmed by voice vote on December 16, 2014. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is Amit Priyavadan Mehta on?: Amit Priyavadan Mehta is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Sources

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11 years on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).