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Judge Pollak entered duty as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York on November 1, 1995. She graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1975 and received her J.D. degree
from the University of Chicago Law School in 1978, where she was Articles and Book Review Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. Following graduation from law school, Judge Pollak served as a law clerk to
the Honorable William H. Timbers on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Thereafter, from 1979-1986, she was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.
In August 1986, Judge Pollak became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, where she served as Chief of the Narcotics/OCDETF Unit, and Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division.
She also served as International Affairs and National Security Coordinator for the United States Attorney's Office. She remained at the United States Attorney's Office until her appointment as a Magistrate Judge in
November 1995.
Judge Pollak is a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where she has served as a member of the Federal Courts Committee, the Committee on Women in the Legal
Profession, and the Litigation Committee. She has also served as a member of the Eastern District Advisory Committee on Civil Practice and Rules and the Eastern District CJA Panel Committee.
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