Robert Katzmann
| Robert Katzmann | |
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| Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | |
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Assumed office September 1, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Dennis Jacobs |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit | |
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Assumed office July 14, 1999 |
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| Nominated by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Jon Newman |
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April 22, 1953 New York City, New York, U.S. |
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Columbia University (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) Yale University (JD) |
Robert Allen Katzmann (born April 22, 1953 in New York, New York) is Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He became Chief Judge on September 1, 2013.
A lawyer and a political scientist by training, Judge Katzmann received his A.B. summa cum laude in 1973 from Columbia University, A.M. and Ph.D degrees in government in 1976 and 1978 from Harvard University, and a J.D. in 1980 from the Yale Law School, where he was an Article and Book Review Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for Judge Hugh H. Bownes, he joined the Brookings Institution Governmental Studies Program, where from 1981–99, he was a research associate, senior fellow, visiting fellow, and acting program director. He has a twin brother, Gary Stephen Katzmann, who is a judge on the United States Court of International Trade.
Katzmann was nominated by President Bill Clinton to his appeals court judgeship on March 8, 1999 and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a voice vote on July 14, 1999 to a seat vacated by Jon O. Newman. At the time of his appointment as a Judge on the Second Circuit, he was Walsh Professor of Government, Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University; a Fellow of the Governmental Studies Program of the Brookings Institution; and president of the Governance Institute (a nonprofit organization concerned with the nexus between law, institutions, and policy). Judge Katzmann is the first judge on the federal bench with a doctorate in government.
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