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United States Court of International Trade

Tenure

2016 - Present

Years in position

Education

Personal

Gary Stephen Katzmann is a judge on the United States Court of International Trade. Katzmann was confirmed on a voice vote of the United States Senate on June 6, 2016, and received his commission on September 15, 2016. Prior to his service on the Court of International Trade, Katzmann served as an associate justice on the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the intermediate appellate court for the state of Massachusetts.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Education

Katzmann earned an A.B. degree from Columbia College, an M.Litt. from Oxford University, an M.P.P.M. from the Yale School of Management, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.^[3]

Professional career

2016 - Present: Judge, United States Court of International Trade
2004-2016: Associate justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court
1994-1995: Attorney, office of the director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
1993-1994: On detail, assistant deputy attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice
1983-2004: Assistant United States attorney, District of Massachusetts

1989-1992: Chief legal counsel to U.S. Attorney

1989: Deputy chief, criminal division

1983-1993, 1997-1998: Chief appellate attorney

1981-1983: Research associate and special investigator, Harvard School's Center for Criminal Justice
1980-1981: Law clerk, Hon. Stephen Breyer, United States Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit
1979-1980: Law clerk, Hon. Leonard Sand, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York^[3]^[4]

Judicial career

Court of International Trade

Nomination Tracker

Nominee Information
Name: Gary Katzmann
Court: United States Court of International Trade
Progress
Confirmed 312 days after nomination.
Nominated: July 30, 2015
ABA Rating: Unanimously Well Qualified
Questionnaire: Questionnaire
Hearing: January 27, 2016

QFRs: QFRs (Hover over QFRs to read more)

Reported: April 7, 2016
Confirmed: June 6, 2016
Vote: Voice vote

Katzmann was nominated to the United States Court of International Trade on July 30, 2015, to succeed Judge Jane Restani. On the nomination:

“	I am proud to nominate these outstanding candidates to serve on the Court of International Trade. I am confident that they will serve the American people with integrity and distinction.^[5]	”
—President Barack Obama, ^[4]

The American Bar Association rated Katzmann Unanimously Well Qualified for the position.^[6]

Hearings on Katzmann's nomination were held before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on January 27, 2016, and his nomination was reported by U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on April 7, 2016. Katzmann was confirmed on a voice vote of the U.S. Senate on June 6, 2016, and he received his commission on September 15, 2016.^[2]^[3]

Awards and associations

Recipient, Department of Justice Director's Award for excellence in appellate advocacy and for successful terrorism prosecution
Member, Board of Visitors of the Discovering Justice Program
Member, Board of the Thomas J. Drinan Fellowship at Suffolk University Law School
Past member, Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee^[3]

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