Margo K. Brodie was nominated by President Barack Obama and received her commission to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York on February 29, 2012. She assumed the role of Chief Judge on February 1, 2021.

Immediately prior to taking the bench, Judge Brodie served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York from 1999 to 2012. Judge Brodie served in several positions in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, including: Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, from 2010 to 2012; Counselor, Criminal Division, from 2009 to 2010; Chief, General Crimes, from 2007 to 2009; and Deputy Chief, General Crimes, from 2006 to 2007. Prior to her service in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Judge Brodie worked in private practice at a firm from 1994 to 1999 and started her legal career by serving as Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Real Estate Litigation Division of the New York City Law Department from 1991 to 1994. Judge Brodie earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Francis College in 1998 and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1991.