

He has also taught at Brooklyn Law School. Since 1995, Gleeson has served as an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Law, where he teaches courses in complex federal investigations and sentencing. Attorneys Recommend Against The Death Penalty,” 89 Virginia Law Review 1697 (2003) “Supervising Criminal Investigations: The Proper Scope of the Supervisory Power of Federal Judges,” 5 Journal of Law and Social Policy 423 (1997) “Sentence Bargaining Under the Guidelines,” 8 Federal Sentencing Reporter 6 (1996) and “The Federalization of Organized Crime: The Advantages of Federal Prosecution,” 46 Hastings Law Journal 1095 (1995) (with UVA Law professor John C. James), and has written the following articles: “The Sentencing Commission and Prosecutorial Discretion: The Role of Courts in Policing Sentence Bargains,” 36 Hofstra Law Review 639 (2008) “Supervising Federal Capital Punishment: Why The Attorney General Should Defer When U.S. Gleeson is a co-author of the treatise “Federal Criminal Practice: A Second Circuit Handbook,” LexisNexis (15 th ed. President Bill Clinton appointed Gleeson as a U.S. He was awarded the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award for his role as the lead prosecutor in the successful 1992 prosecution of John Gotti, the notorious Mafia leader, after three previous trials had failed to result in Gotti's conviction. During the next 10 years, he served as Chief of Appeals, Chief of Special Prosecutions, Chief of Organized Crime and Chief of the Criminal Division, the position he occupied when he was appointed to the bench. attorney in the Eastern District of New York from 1985 to 1994. From 1981 to 1985, he was a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in Louisville, Kentucky. After law school, Gleeson served as a law clerk for Judge Boyce F. Gleeson attended Georgetown University as an undergraduate and received his law degree in 1980 from the University of Virginia School of Law. "John Gleeson has been a remarkably thoughtful judge who never lost sight of the fundamental importance of promoting justice," UVA Law School Dean Paul G. He was nominated to the court by President Bill Clinton in 1994 and will step down from the bench on Mato become a partner at the New York law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge John Gleeson, known for his active support for criminal justice reforms related to sentencing, served as a federal judge for the U.S.
