# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/denny-chin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:33:11.332Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/denny-chin"
name: "Denny Chin"
slug: "denny-chin"
description: "Denny Chin is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York before joining the federal appeals bench. President Bill Clinton nominated Chin to the district court on March 24, 1994, and Chin was confirmed August 9 of that same year. On October 6, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Chin to the Second Circuit. He was confirmed on April 22, 2010, by the United States Senate, filling the vacancy created by Judge Robert D. Sack who assumed senior status. Chin was the first Asian American appointed as a United States District Judge outside of the Ninth Circuit."
tagline: "United States federal judge"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Denny_Chin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1954-04-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.8
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.685032
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "ديني تشين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "دينى تشين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Chin"
    title: "Denny Chin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E5%8D%93%E5%85%89"
    title: "陳卓光"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%B3%E5%8D%93%E5%85%89"
    title: "陳卓光"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5259162"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump