Gary Traynor, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Gary Traynor

American judge

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1956

Place of Birth: Dover, Delaware, United States

Profession: judge

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Gary Traynor

  • Gary Francis Traynor (born August 25, 1956) is an American lawyer and judge, who is an associate justice of the Delaware Supreme Court.Traynor was born in Dover, Delaware, in 1956, and graduated from Dover High School.
  • He completed a bachelor's degree in history at Dartmouth College in 1978, and a law degree at Delaware Law School at Widener University in 1982.Traynor was in private practice in Dover from 1982 to 1990 at the law firm Brown, Shiels & Chasanov, and in Wilmington from 1990 to 2014 at the law firm Prickett, Jones & Elliot.
  • He also served as an officer in the Delaware Army National Guard from 1990 to 1991, and was a commissioner on the Delaware River and Bay Authority from 2009 to 2014.Traynor worked for the state as an assistant public defender for Sussex County from 2015 to 2017.On February 9, 2017, Delaware Supreme Court justice Randy J.
  • Holland announced that he would retire from the court at the end of March.
  • On May 14, 2017, the Governor of Delaware John Carney announced that he would nominate Traynor to the vacant seat.
  • Carney and Traynor went to the same high school, played on the same football team, and also attended Dartmouth together.Traynor is a Republican.
  • Governor Carney, a Democrat, was required to nominate a Republican to replace Holland under state law, because no party can have more than three members on the state's supreme court.The Delaware Senate unanimously confirmed Traynor's nomination on June 7, 2017.
  • His twelve-year term on the Delaware Supreme Court began on July 5, 2017.

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