Joan Marie Azrack
Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2014 and confirmed by voice vote, Joan Marie Azrack is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She earned a law degree from New York Law School in 1979. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓
- Born
- 1951 · age 75
- Appointed by
- Barack Obama, 2014
- Confirmed
- by voice vote
- Education
- Rutgers 1974 · New York Law School 1979
- Succeeded
- Joanna Seybert
- Succeeded by
- Sanket Jayshukh Bulsara
Federal judicial service
| Year | Court | Appointed by | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Eastern District of New York succeeded Joanna Seybert | 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
| Rutgers University | B.S. | 1974 |
| New York Law School | J.D. | 1979 |
Judicial Record
Caseload & case types
In our data, Azrack was assigned 4,312 district-court cases (1984–2026). Median time from filing to termination: 279 days across 3,800 closed cases.
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 78 of Azrack’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 64 were affirmed, 8 reversed or vacated, and 6 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, Azrack authored 24 published opinions for the court (1992–2010). Most cited: Jacobs v. New York Foundling Hospital (28 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A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Jacobs v. New York Foundling Hospital | 483 F. Supp. 2d 251 | 28 |
| 2010 | Locke v. ST. AUGUSTINE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | 690 F. Supp. 2d 77 | 24 |
| 2006 | Jones v. United States | 408 F. Supp. 2d 107 | 22 |
| 1995 | Leykis v. NYP Holdings, Inc. | 899 F. Supp. 986 | 22 |
| 2005 | Pollock v. Trustmark Insurance | 367 F. Supp. 2d 293 | 18 |
| 2001 | Sinagra v. Atlantic Ocean Shipping, Ltd. | 182 F. Supp. 2d 294 | 18 |
| 2006 | Del Franco v. New York City Off-Track Betting Corp. | 429 F. Supp. 2d 529 | 17 |
| 1998 | Yanez v. City of New York | 29 F. Supp. 2d 100 | 15 |
| 1993 | American Cablevision of Queens v. McGinn | 817 F. Supp. 317 | 14 |
| 2006 | United States v. United States Currency in Sum of Six Hundred Sixty Thousand, Two Hundred Dollars ($660,200.00) | 423 F. Supp. 2d 14 | 13 |
| 2008 | Phelps v. Szubinski | 577 F. Supp. 2d 650 | 10 |
| 1995 | Sheppard v. Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc. | 893 F. Supp. 6 | 9 |
| 1997 | Galbut v. American Airlines, Inc. | 27 F. Supp. 2d 146 | 8 |
| 2007 | In Re Orders (1) Authorizing Use of Pen Registers | 515 F. Supp. 2d 325 | 7 |
| 2005 | United States v. Cohen | 372 F. Supp. 2d 340 | 7 |
Showing the 15 most-cited of 24 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 Joan Marie Azrack?
- President Barack Obama appointed Joan Marie Azrack to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in 2014.
- Was Joan Marie Azrack appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?
- Joan Marie Azrack was appointed by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
- What was Joan Marie Azrack's confirmation vote?
- Joan Marie Azrack was confirmed by voice vote on December 16, 2014. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
- Which court is Joan Marie Azrack on?
- Joan Marie Azrack is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Sources
Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.
- FJC Biographical Directory
- Wikidata
- Portrait: screenshot of video by US Senate Judiciary Committee (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons
- CourtListener bulk data (Free Law Project): authored opinions & citation counts
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11 years on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).