Esther Salas

Judge Salas presided over a wide range of cases. Last week, she was assigned to oversee a class-action lawsuit filed by a group of investors against Deutsche Bank, contending that the firm failed to flag questionable transactions that were made from the account of the financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died last August while in jail awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. Nominated by Barack Obama on January 5, 2011, to a seat vacated by Katharine Sweeney Hayden. Confirmed by the Senate on June 14, 2011, and received commission on June 14, 2011. Law clerk, Hon. Eugene J. Codey, Jr., Superior Court of New Jersey, 1994-1995 Private practice, Plainfield, New Jersey, 1995-1997 Assistant federal public defender, District of New Jersey, 1997-2006U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 2006-2011 Rutgers University, B.A., 1991 Rutgers School of Law -- Newark, J.D., 1994