Background Meyer was born on April 13, 1963, in
North Tarrytown,
New York to Ed Meyer and Linda Lowry. He received a
Bachelor of Arts degree,
summa cum laude, in 1985, from
Yale College. He received a
Juris Doctor in 1989 from
Yale Law School. From 1989 to 1990, he
clerked for Judge
James L. Oakes of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From 1991 to 1992, he clerked for Justice
Harry Blackmun of the
United States Supreme Court. Between 1992 and 1995, he worked first at the
Washington, D.C. law firm of Shearman & Sterling and then at
Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, and then as a staff attorney for Vermont Legal Aid. He served as an
Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Connecticut from 1995 to 2004, serving as Appeals Chief from 2000 to 2004. He served as senior counsel to the Independent Inquiry Committee into the
United Nations Oil for Food Program in
Iraq from 2004 to 2005. Starting in 2006, he had been a professor of law at
Quinnipiac University School of Law and a
visiting professor of law at Yale Law School since 2010.
Federal judicial service On June 7, 2013, President
Barack Obama nominated Meyer to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, to the seat vacated by Judge
Mark R. Kravitz, who died on October 1, 2012. He was unanimously rated by the
American Bar Association as a "Well Qualified" judicial nominee (ratings are: Well Qualified, Qualified and Not Qualified). His nomination was unanimously approved by the
Senate Judiciary Committee on September 19, 2013. On February 12, 2014, Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid filed for
cloture on Meyer's nomination. On February 24, 2014, the
United States Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 55–37 vote, with 1 senator voted “present”. His nomination was confirmed later that day by a 91–2 vote. Meyer received his judicial commission on February 25, 2014. He remained in active service until he died from a long illness on January 12, 2025. ==Cases adjudicated==