John P. Cronan
John Peter Cronan (born 1976) is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He was formerly acting United States assistant attorney general for the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division. Education Cronan earned his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University in 1998, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, and his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2001. Career After graduating from law school, Cronan served as a law clerk to Judge Barrington D. Parker Jr. on both the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2001 to 2002. He later clerked for Judge Robert Katzmann of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2002 to 2003. Cronan was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2007 to 2017, where he supervised the Terrorism and International Narcotics Unit from 2014 to 2016 and served in the Office's Civil Division from 2003 to 2007. He previously served as the acting United States Assistant