#  Ona Wang 

Federal Magistrate Judge in the US District Courts (SDNY)

 

 

 



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 email [ona\_t\_wang@nysd.uscourts.gov](mailto:ona_t_wang@nysd.uscourts.gov) 

 



 

Ona T. Wang is a magistrate judge in the Southern District of New York. Before taking the bench in 2018, she was a litigation partner at Baker Hostetler LLP, where she worked in white collar defense, securities and commercial litigation. While at the firm, she led a team of lawyers representing the Madoff trustee in the trustee’s investigation and recovery efforts, served as Vice-Chair of the firmwide Pro Bono Committee, as the New York Office Hiring Partner, and served on the firm’s Diversity Committee. She is a member of the Federal Bar Council American Inn of Court, AABANY, NAPABA, and the New York City Bar Association, and has served previously on the Executive and Nominating Committees and as Secretary of the New York City Bar Association. Judge Wang is also a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Currently Judge Wang serves on several internal committees in the Southern District of New York, and was recently appointed by Chief Justice Roberts to serve on the Federal Judicial Center’s Magistrate Judge Education Advisory Committee, which plans all of the mid-career and initial training and national workshops for federal magistrate judges across the country.  
  
In 2014, the New York Law Journal named Judge Wang one of its “Lawyers Who Lead by Example” for her pro bono work. In 2016, the NYU Public Interest Law Center awarded Judge Wang its inaugural Public Service Award. In her pro bono work before taking the bench, Judge Wang was most proud of her post-conviction litigation on behalf of inmates sentenced to death in Alabama (partnering with Equal Justice Initiative), and her work on amicus briefs and briefs to the United States Supreme Court in gender equality, transgender rights and equality, and capital habeas cases.  
  
Judge Wang received her A.B., *cum laude*, from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, her Ph. D. in zoology from Duke University, and her J.D., *cum laude*, from New York University School of Law. Immediately after law school, she clerked for the Honorable Deborah A. Batts in the Southern District of New York.



 

 

 





 

 

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