Green nominated to District Court seat

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Monroe County District Attorney Mike Green was officially nominated by President Barack Obama to a seat on the U.S. District Court, Western District of New York. Green has served as the district attorney since 2004, and now moves one step closer to a federal judgeship position.

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer nominated Green last year, stating that he is “an outstanding, moderate and supremely professional figure in law enforcement … and will make a superb addition to the bench.”

Prior to his role as district attorney, Green served as assistant district attorney for 17 years. For three of those years, he was responsible for all homicide prosecutions in Monroe County, and also has been capital crimes prosecutor, deputy chief of the Major Felony Bureau, chief of the DWI Bureau and a trial attorney in the Major Felony Bureau.

Green has focused on improving law enforcement across the country and has served as a faculty member for the National College of District Attorneys at the National Advocacy Center. He also has lectured for the New York Prosecutors Training Institute, the Monroe County Bar Association, the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office, the Monroe County Criminal Justice Training Center, the New York State Law Enforcement Training Directors, the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators and many others.

Green’s nomination must now go through the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and be confirmed by the Senate.