Anthony John Trenga

Anthony John Trenga (born 1949) is a United States federal judge.

Trenga was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Mercersburg Academy in 1967^[1] and received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1971. He received a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1974. He was a law clerk to Judge Ted Dalton of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia from 1974 to 1975.

Trenga was in private practice in Washington, D.C. from 1975–1987 with Sachs, Greenebaum & Tayler, becoming a partner in 1982. He was managing partner at Hazel & Thomas in Alexandria, Virginia from 1987 to 1998, and back in the District 1998-2008 with Miller & Chevalier.^[2]

Trenga is a federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria. Trenga was nominated by President George W. Bush on July 17, 2008, to a seat vacated by Walter D. Kelley. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 26, 2008, and received his commission on October 14, 2008.

Noted case

In October 2009, Trenga set aside the jury conviction of two top sales people at Teach me to Trade, a part of Whitney Information Network,^[3] which uses infomercials and hotel seminars across the country to sell courses and software on making money in the stock market. In a 51-page ruling, Trenga said prosecutors failed to show Utah residents Linda Woolf and David Gengler had been part of any fraud scheme.^[4]

References

Sources

• Anthony John Trenga at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.