Judge Juan Merchan Wiki 2025 Wikipedia. The new york judge who is presiding tuesday over the arraignment of former president donald trump, judge juan merchan, is a colombian immigrant who came to the united states with. Degree from baruch college (city university of new york) in 1990 and his j.d.

New york judge juan manuel merchan has presided over criminal cases against former president donald trump’s company, its former finance chief and one of trump’s former. He has been working in that position since april 2009.