Tanya S. Chutkan parents: Meet Winston Chutkan and Noelle Chutkan

Publish date: 2024-05-22

Tanya Sue Chutkan, an American lawyer and judge with Jamaican ancestry who was born on July 5, 1962, now sits as a district judge for the District of Columbia.

She is the magistrate presiding over the criminal case against the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, including his attempts to change the outcome of the 2020 election, including the circumstances that led to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Tanya S. Chutkan parents: Meet Winston Chutkan and Noelle Chutkan

Her mother Noelle is an Afro-Jamaican who was one of the top dancers in the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica, and her father Winston Chutkan is an Indo-Jamaican doctor. Frank Hill, one of the founding members of the People’s National Party, is the father of Noelle.

Chutkan is related to former Liverpool and England footballer John Barnes through her mother.

Chutkan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from George Washington University in 1983. Later, while she was a student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, she served as an assistant editor for the law review. She received her Juris Doctor in 1987.

Chutkan worked as a private attorney at Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) from 1987 until 1990.

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