Young Roy

The Judge handling Trump v BBC, Roy K Altman became the youngest federal judge in the country in 2019, at the age of 36 - nominated by twice by The Donald, and turned down twice by a Senate committee. His first nomination was endorsed by Marco Rubio.

Roy was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and moved to Miami before he was two. He graduated with a BA in history and political science from Columbia University, where he played quarterback on the football team and pitched for the baseball team—earning All-Ivy honors.  He received his JD from Yale Law School, where he was projects editor of the Yale Law Journal. After law school, Altman worked a  clerk on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Stanley Marcus.

Altman then was appointed a federal prosecutor at the US Attorney’s Office in Miami, where he twice received the Director of the Executive Office of US Attorneys’ Award for Superior Performance by a federal prosecutor. In 2013, Altman was awarded “Federal Prosecutor of the Year” by the Miami-Dade Chiefs of Police and the Law Enforcement Officers’ Charitable Foundation. In 2014, Altman became a partner at Coral Gables 'boutique' law firm, Podhurst Orseck, where he represented the victims of plane crashes and bank fraud.  

He's been an member of the America Israel Public Affairs Committee, The Republican Jewish Coalition, and, through Christians United for Israel, has been organising trips to Israel for fellow federal judges. At the end of March, Simon and Schuster publish his book "Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law".