Michael Charles Green (born 1961) is the executive commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS).
During 2011, he was a federal judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the Western District of New York, and although he was reported out of committee to the floor of the United States Senate, Green never received a floor vote, and President Obama did not renominate him in the next session of Congress.
For the three years before his election, he served as the First Assistant District Attorney, responsible for the homicide prosecutions in Monroe County.
[3] On January 26, 2011, President Barack Obama formally nominated Green to a judgeship on the Western District of New York.
[5] On December 18, 2011, a White House spokesman told a local newspaper that Obama would not be renominating Green to the seat.
"Mike Green would have made an outstanding judge and it is very unfortunate not only for him, but for a strong judiciary, that partisan politics stood in the way," Schumer said in a statement on December 18, 2011.
[6][7] On December 19, 2011, Green said at a press conference that he blamed local opposition on his failed judicial nomination, as a result of his prosecution of public corruption.