He was confirmed on April 22, 2010, by the United States Senate, filling the vacancy created by Judge Robert D. Sack who assumed senior status.

in psychology from Princeton University in 1975 after completing a 130-page long senior thesis titled "The Old Ones of Chinatown: A Study of the Elderly Chinese.

[8][9] Following a 1978 to 1980 clerkship with Judge Henry Frederick Werker in the Southern District, Chin worked for the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1980 to 1982.

[8][9] President Bill Clinton nominated Chin to the Southern District bench on March 24, 1994, to a new seat created by 104 Stat.

[9] On October 6, 2009, President Barack Obama nominated Chin to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Chin's ruling came on the grounds that WWF had a sound basis in suing the PTC over defamation, interference with business, and copyright infringement.

Chin presided over the criminal trial of Oscar Wyatt, the Texas oil executive accused of making kick-backs to the Saddam Hussein regime during the UN Oil-For-Food Program.

[21] He was assigned the Google Book Search Settlement Agreement case on January 8, 2009, after the death of the previous supervising judge.

[23] In 2012, Chin presided over the criminal sentencing of Anil Kumar, a senior executive of McKinsey and Company in the Galleon Group insider trading investigation.

[24] In 2016, Chin joined the panel that upheld Tom Brady's suspension by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for the Deflatgate scandal.

Madoff admitted to committing securities fraud via a Ponzi scheme starting in the early 1990s, which involved potentially as much as $65 billion.