Nina Gershon

(born 1940, Chicago, Illinois) is a federal district judge in the Eastern District of New York. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 at the recommendation of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. She assumed senior status on October 16, 2008.

Prior to her appointment as a district judge, Judge Gershon served for twenty years as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York. Before that, she was Chief of the Consumer Protection Division for the New York City Law Department (1975–76); Chief of Federal Appeals for the Law Department (1972–75); Assistant Corporation Counsel for the Law Department (1968–69 and 1970–72); and a Staff Attorney for the Supreme Court of New York and the Mental Health Information Service (1966–68).

Gershon holds a B.A. in English with honors from Cornell (1962) and an L.L.B. from Yale (1965). In 1965 and 1966, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics' Hampstead Clinic