José A. Cabranes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

José A. Cabranes

American judge

Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1940

Place of Birth: Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, United States

Profession: judge, lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

José Alberto Cabranes (born December 22, 1940) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a member of the three-judge United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review ("FISCR"), designated in May 2018 as Presiding Judge of the FISCR.
Formerly a practicing lawyer, government official, and law teacher, he was the first Puerto Rican appointed to a federal judgeship in the continental United States (1979).