# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/loretta-preska
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:26:14.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/loretta-preska"
name: "Loretta Preska"
slug: "loretta-preska"
description: "Loretta A. Preska is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Born in Albany, Preska received law degrees from Fordham University School of Law and New York University School of Law. She practiced law in New York City from 1973 to 1992 at the law firms of Cahill Gordon & Reindel and Hertzog, Calamari & Gleason. President George H. W. Bush appointed her to the district bench in 1992. She served as chief judge of the court for a seven-year term from 2009 to 2016, and took senior status in 2017. President George W. Bush nominated Preska to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2008, but the Senate did not act on the nomination."
tagline: "American judge"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Loretta_A._Preska.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1949-01-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.843128
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7_%D8%A3."
    title: "لوريتا بريسكا أ."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7_%D8%A7."
    title: "لوريتا بريسكا ا."
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Preska"
    title: "Loretta Preska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_Preska"
    title: "Loretta Preska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loretta_A._Preska"
    title: "Loretta A. Preska"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49672"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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