Karin Immergut
| Karin Immergut | |
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| United States Attorney for the District of Oregon | |
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In office October 3, 2003 – July 2009 |
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| Nominated by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Michael W. Mosman |
| Succeeded by | Amanda Marshall |
| Judge for the Multnomah County Circuit Court | |
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Assumed office 2009 |
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| Constituency | Multnomah County, Oregon |
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| Born | December 22, 1960 Brooklyn, New York |
| Spouse(s) | James T. McDermott |
| Alma mater |
Amherst College Boalt Hall School of Law |
Karin Johanna Immergut (born December 22, 1960) is a judge in the state of Oregon. A native of New York City, she was the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon from 2003 until her resignation in July 2009 when she was appointed as circuit court judge for Multnomah County, Oregon, by Governor Ted Kulongoski. Before serving as a U.S. Attorney, Immergut worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in both Oregon and California, was a deputy district attorney in Portland, and work for Ken Starr during his investigation of President Bill Clinton.
Karin Immergut was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 22, 1960. Her father was an Austrian chemist and her mother a Swedish mathematician. Her parents married in Sweden and then immigrated to the United States where Karin was born. She graduated from Amherst College in 1982 and received her law degree in 1987 from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. After law school she worked as a litigation associate at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. for one year.
Following private practice, Immergut served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California in Los Angeles for six years. During her tenure in the Central District of California, Immergut prosecuted several large-scale complex narcotics and money laundering cases and served as a Deputy Chief of the Narcotics Section and Chief of the Training Section. She spent six years there and then moved to Burlington, Vermont, to work for the firm Gravel & Shea for two years. In 1996, Immergut then moved to Portland, Oregon, where she married James T. McDermott and was hired by Multnomah County.
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