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Katzmann, Gary S.
Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade
Nominated by Barack Obama on July 30, 2015, to a seat vacated by Jane A. Restani. Confirmed by the Senate on June 6, 2016, and received commission on September 15, 2016.
Education:
Columbia College, A.B., 1973
University of Oxford, M.Litt., 1976
Yale Law School, J.D., 1979
Yale School of Organization and Management, M.P.P.M., 1979
Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Leonard B. Sand, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1979-1980
Law clerk, Hon. Stephen G. Breyer, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1980-1981
Research associate, Center for Criminal Justice, Harvard Law School, 1981-1983; special investigator, Administrative Board, 1982-1983
Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Massachusetts, 1983-2004; chief appellate attorney, 1983-1993, 1997-1998; deputy chief, Criminal Division, 1989; chief legal counsel to U.S. attorney, 1989-1992
Associate deputy attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice (on detail), 1993-1994
Attorney, Office of the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (on detail), 1994-1995
Lecturer on law, Harvard Law School, 1990-1994, 1997
Governance Institute, Washington, D.C., 1997-2003; research fellow and project director, 1997-2001; fellow, 2002-2003
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1997-2003; research fellow and project director, 1997-2001; fellow, 2002-2003
Associate justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court, 2004-2016
Faculty member, NYU Law School Institute of Judicial Administration, New Appellate Judges Seminar, 2013-
Visiting lecturer on law, Yale Law School, 2022