Who appointed George B. Daniels?

President William J. Clinton appointed George B. Daniels to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2000.

Was George B. Daniels appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

George B. Daniels was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was George B. Daniels's confirmation vote?

The Senate confirmed George B. Daniels 98–0 on February 24, 2000.

Southern District of New York / Appointed 2000 / Senior status since 2021

George B. Daniels

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Appointed by President William J. Clinton in 2000 and confirmed by the Senate 98–0, George B. Daniels is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He earned a law degree from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 1978. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Appointed by: William J. Clinton, 2000
Confirmed: 98–0
Education: Yale 1975 · University of California, Berkeley, Law 1978
Succeeded: Robert Porter Patterson Jr.
Succeeded by: Jennifer Louise Rochon

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Southern District of New York succeeded Robert Porter Patterson Jr.	Clinton (D)	98–0

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own.

Confirmation vote

Nomination Confirmed 98–0 on February 24, 2000 · 106th Congress, Roll Call 14. Each senator links to their judicial-voting record.

Voted to confirm · 98

44 D, 54 R

Did not vote · 2

1 D, 1 R

Max Baucus(D-MT)
John McCain(R-AZ)

Education

Yale University	B.A.	1975
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law	J.D.	1978

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Daniels was assigned 5,822 district-court cases (1992–2026). Median time from filing to termination: 262 days across 5,355 closed cases.

Civil rights18%

Contract17%

Personal-injury torts12%

Labor & ERISA11%

Other civil matters8%

Intellectual property8%

Other26%

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 307 of Daniels’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 231 were affirmed, 49 reversed or vacated, and 27 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, Daniels authored 31 published opinions for the court (2001–2011). Most cited: Securities & Exchange Commission v. Lee (43 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
2010	Securities & Exchange Commission v. Lee	720 F. Supp. 2d 305	43
2010	Licci v. American Express Bank Ltd.	704 F. Supp. 2d 403	28
2011	In Re Sanofi-Aventis Securities Litigation	774 F. Supp. 2d 549	27
2011	MacEntee v. IBM (INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES)	783 F. Supp. 2d 434	27
2005	Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. v. Opening Day Productions, Inc.	385 F. Supp. 2d 256	24
2011	2006 Frank Calandra, Jr. Irrevocable Trust v. Signature Bank Corp.	816 F. Supp. 2d 222	15
2005	Walker v. Jon Renau Collection, Inc.	423 F. Supp. 2d 115	13
2005	Stamey v. NYP Holdings, Inc.	358 F. Supp. 2d 317	11
2005	Wright v. Goldman, Sachs & Co.	387 F. Supp. 2d 314	11
2011	Turner v. NYU HOSPITALS CENTER	784 F. Supp. 2d 266	9
2009	Jackson v. Goord	664 F. Supp. 2d 307	8
2006	Federal Treasury Enterprise Sojuzplodoimport v. Spirits International N.V.	425 F. Supp. 2d 458	8
2004	Hollenbeck v. Boivert	330 F. Supp. 2d 324	8
2005	Securities & Exchange Commission v. Siebel Systems, Inc.	384 F. Supp. 2d 694	7
2005	Plumey v. New York State	389 F. Supp. 2d 491	7

Showing the 15 most-cited of 31 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 George B. Daniels?: President William J. Clinton appointed George B. Daniels to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 2000.
Was George B. Daniels appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: George B. Daniels was appointed by President William J. Clinton, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was George B. Daniels's confirmation vote?: The Senate confirmed George B. Daniels 98–0 on February 24, 2000.
Which court is George B. Daniels on?: George B. Daniels is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Sources

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