Robert A. Katzmann

Professional career

• Created the New York Immigrant Family Unity Project, the first government-funded legal counsel program for detained non-citizens.
• acting program director, 1998-present
• Wayne Morse chair in law and politics, University of Oregon, 1992-present
• Walsh Professor of Government, professor of law and professor of public policy, 1992-1999
• Visiting professor, University of California, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. program, 1990-1992
• adjunct professor of public policy, 1987-1992
• Special assistant to the director, Federal Judicial Center, 1986-1988
• President, Governance Institute, 1986-1999
• adjunct professor of law, 1984-1989
• Faculty, Georgetown University, 1984-1999
• Fellow, Brookings Institution, 1981-1999
• Law clerk, Hon. Hugh H. Bownes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1980-1981

Judicial service

• Judge, Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1999-present
• Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Robert Allen Katzmann (1953–2021) was a distinguished U.S. Circuit Judge of the Second Circuit, Chief Judge from 2013 to 2020, and a prominent advocate for immigrant legal rights.
• Nominated by President Bill Clinton on March 8, 1999, Katzmann was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on July 14, 1999. He held the role of Chief Judge from September 1, 2013, to August 31, 2020. In 2021, he assumed senior status but died on June 9, 2021.
• Founded the Immigrant Justice Corps (2014), the first U.S. fellowship program for recent graduates to provide legal aid to immigrants.
• held the role of a law clerk to Judge Hugh H. Bownes (1st Cir.) (1980–81).

Education

• Columbia College · A.B., 1973
• Harvard University · A.M., 1976
• Yale University · J.D., 1980
• Forest Hills High School
• Yale Law School, where he was an Article and Book Review Editor of the Yale Law Journal · J.D.

Personal record

Born 1953 · New York, NY