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Biography

Judge McMahon was born in 1951 in Columbus, Ohio. She received her undergraduate education at The Ohio State University (B.A. 1973) and her legal education at Harvard Law School (J.D. 1976). After a few years in private practice at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Judge McMahon served as a Speechwriter and Special Assistant to the Honorable Donald McHenry, United States Mission to the United Nations (1979-1980). She then returned to Paul, Weiss, where in 1984 she became the first woman litigator to be elected as a partner of that firm. Judge McMahon served as a Judge of the New York Court of Claims (1995) and as an Acting Justice of the Supreme Court of the New York Supreme Court (1995-1998). In 1998, she was appointed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by President William J Clinton.