Peggy Kuo

Adjunct Professor of Law

Peggy Kuo was appointed U.S. Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of New York on October 9, 2015.  She received a B.A. summa cum laude in history from Yale University and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. 

Judge Kuo clerked for the Honorable Judith W. Rogers, Chief Judge of the D.C. Court of Appeals.  She served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, then trial attorney and Acting Deputy Chief of the Civil Rights Division Criminal Section at the U.S. Department of Justice, where she investigated and prosecuted hate crimes and allegations of police misconduct throughout the United States.

From 1998 to 2002, Judge Kuo prosecuted war crimes and crimes against humanity at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, including mass rape in Bosnia.  

Thereafter, Judge Kuo was litigation counsel at Wilmer Hale, LLP, Chief Hearing Officer at the New York Stock Exchange, and Deputy Commissioner and General Counsel of the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings.