George C. Pratt

Who is George C. Pratt?

George Cheney Pratt, was a federal appellate judge in the United States, and in 2013 was listed as a NAFTA adjudicator.

Pratt attended Yale University as an undergraduate as well as Yale Law School. After a two-year term clerking for a judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Pratt spent two decades, from 1955 to 1976, as a lawyer in private practice in Nassau County, New York.

In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford selected Pratt to serve as a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan elevated Pratt to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Pratt took senior status on the Court of Appeals in 1993. He fully retired from judicial service in 1995.

Judge Pratt began teaching at The Touro Law Center Jacob D. Fuchsberg School of Law in Central Islip, New York where he currently is a full-time faculty member.