David W. Rivkin (born 1955), Litigation Partner at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
After 32 years on the Court, Judge Debevoise has over 60 former law clerks, including Stuart Rabner, current Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, former New Jersey Attorney General, and former counsel to New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, and Peter C. Harvey, who was the first African American to serve as New Jersey Attorney General (2003–2006).
Eli Whitney Debevoise was born in Manhattan on December 14, 1899 and named after his great-great grandfather, Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin.
Eli Whitney Debevoise II, commonly known as “Whitney Debevoise,” was born in Morristown, New Jersey in 1953 and graduated from the St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. in 1970.