Amit Mehta is an Indian-origin judge serving on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated by Barack Obama in 2014 and confirmed by the US Senate the same year.
Born in 1971 in Patan, Mehta moved to the United States as a child. He studied at Georgetown University and later earned his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. Before becoming a judge, he worked as a public defender and later as a partner at a law firm in Washington, D.C.
