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When Donald Trump walks into a New York courtroom on Tuesday to face criminal charges, he’ll face a seasoned judge who is no stranger to the former president’s orbit: Acting New York Supreme Court Judge, Juan Merchan.
He has sentenced Trump’s close confident Allen Weisselberg to prison, presided over the Trump Organization tax fraud trial and overseen former adviser Steve Bannon’s criminal fraud case.
But Trump’s historic arraignment on Tuesday will perhaps be Merchan’s most high-profile case to date, even after a long career atop the state-level trial court.
Outside the legal realm, Judge Juan Merchan is married to wife Lauren Merchan.
Who is Lauren Merchan, Judge Juan Merchan Wife?
According to vizaca.com, Lauren Merchan is the lifelong wife of Juan Merchan, an American jurist who was born in Bogotá, Colombia.
Lauren Merchan exact age has never earned a mention in the public space, but it has been speculated that the wife of Juan Merchan Smith is between 45 and 55.
It is also believed that she was born in Bogotá, Colombia, though this has never been confirmed.
Lauren’s academic history is equally unknown at the moment.
Be sure we will update you should we get any leads on any of the information we currently do not have.
Who is Judge Juan Merchan?
The Colombian-born Merchan, 60, emigrated as a 6-year-old and grew up in New York City.
The first member of his family to go to college, he worked his way through school and went on to earn a law degree from Hofstra University in 1994.
He was a Manhattan prosecutor and worked in the state attorney general’s office before then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed him as a family court judge in 2006.
Three years later, Merchan was assigned to a trial court called the Supreme Court in New York.
His particular duties now include overseeing a Manhattan mental health court where some defendants get a chance to resolve their cases with treatment and supervision, a program he views as a success story.
Like a lot of New York judges, he’s had experience with headline-making stories.
