Gary S. Katzmann

Professional career

• Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2002-2003
• Fellow, Governance Institute, DC, 2002-2003
• Research Fellow and Project Director at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1997-2001
• Research Fellow and Project Director, Governance Institute, DC, 1997-2001
• Lecturer on Law, Harvard University, 1997-1997
• Lecturer on Law, Harvard University, 1990-1994
• Assistant U.S. Attorney, District of Massachusetts, 1983-2004
• Special Investigator, Administrative Board, 1982-1983
• Research Associate, Center for Criminal Justice at Harvard Law School, 1981-1983

Judicial service

• Law Clerk, District Court, S.D. New York, 1979-1980
• Law Clerk, Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1980-1981
• Associate Justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court, 2004-2016
• Judge, United States Court of International Trade, 2016-present
• Gary S. Katzmann is an American judge serving on the U.S. Court of International Trade since September 15, 2016, appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate by voice vote.
• From 2004 to 2016, Katzmann held the role of Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, adjudicating civil and criminal cases. Before that, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Massachusetts, holding roles such as Chief Appellate Attorney, Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, and Chief Legal Counsel to the U.S. Attorney. He also served on detail at the Department of Justice as Associate Deputy Attorney General and at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• Judge Katzmann is a Judge of the United States Court of International Trade, a federal court established under Article III of the U.S. Constitution to handle disputes involving international trade, customs, and intellectual property. He has also sat by designation on the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the First, Second, and Ninth Circuits. He is a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction.
• Katzmann clerked for Judge Leonard B. Sand (S.D.N.Y.) and Judge Stephen G. Breyer (1st Cir., now Supreme Court Justice). He was a research associate at Harvard Law School’s Center for Criminal Justice and a special investigator for the Administrative Board.

Education

• Columbia College · BA, 1973
• University of Oxford · MA, 1976
• Yale University · JD, 1979
• Yale School of Management
• Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal · J.D.

Personal record

Born 1953 · New York, NY