Analisa Torres

Analisa Nadine Torres (born 1959) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Early life and education Analisa Torres's father, Frank Torres, served for many years as a New York Supreme Court justice in the Bronx, and as a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly; and her grandfather Felipe N. Torres (d. 1994) served as a Family Court judge and was also an assemblyman. Torres received her Artium Baccalaureus degree, magna cum laude, in 1981 from Harvard College and her Juris Doctor in 1984 from Columbia Law School. Career Torres spent the early portion of her legal career as a real estate associate at three New York City law firms (Kaye Scholer from 1984 to 1985, Coudert Brothers from 1985 to 1987, and Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler from 1988 to 1992). From 1992 to 1999, she clerked for Justice Elliot Wilk of the New York Supreme Court; she served as a commissioner of the New York City Planning Commission from 1993 to 1995. From 2000 to 2002, Torres was a judge of the New York City Criminal Court. From 2003 to 2004, she was a judge on the New York City Civil Court. She served as an acting justice of the New York Supreme Court in the Bronx from 2004 to 2009, and became an elected justice of that court in 2010, handling criminal felony cases, serving until 2013.