Judge Sri Srinivasan is India Abroad person of the year

June 23, 2014 11:08

President Barack Obama calls him one of his "favourite people". Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the legendary first female Supreme Court Justice in the US, says America is "lucky as a nation to have him now serving as a federal judge.'

Former US Solicitor General Walter Dellinger believes he is "one of the most gifted lawyers of his generation.'

And India Abroad considers him the best of America and India.

For India Abroad the choice of Judge Srikanth Srinivasan as the India Abroad Person of the Year 2013 -- much like his confirmation as a federal judge in the US Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia, America's second highest court -- was unanimous. Read

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