Judge Meredith A. Vacca was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York on July 31, 2024. Previously, she was a judge on the Monroe County Court and an Acting Justice on the New York State Supreme Court. Prior to that, she was an Assistant District Attorney in the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office in Rochester, New York from 2007 to 2020. Judge Vacca received her J.D. from the University of Buffalo School of Law in 2005 and her B.A. from Colgate University in 2002.