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President Barack Obama has announced the nomination of Connecticut U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny to service on the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. Chatigny, who sits in Hartford, was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, and grew up in upstate New York. He graduated from Brown University in 1973 and Georgetown University Law Center in 1978. After graduation, he served as a clerk for U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti in the Northern District of California; for Judge Cabranes, then sitting on the U.S. District Court in Connecticut; and for Judge Newman, who was on the 2nd Circuit. Chatigny worked for two years at Williams and Connolly in Washington, D.C., before opening his own practice in Connecticut in 1984. He was nominated as a federal judge for the District of Connecticut in May 1994 by President Bill Clinton and was the district's chief judge from 2003 to 2009.