Associate Justice Gary S. Katzmann
Gary S. Katzmann began service as an Associate Justice of the Appeals Court on October 27, 2004. Before becoming a judge, he was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts, where he held various supervisory positions, and engaged in criminal and civil litigation in the trial and appellate courts. He also served on detail to the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., as an Associate Deputy Attorney General. He is a recipient of the Department of Justice's Director's Awards for excellence in appellate advocacy, and for his work in a successful terrorism prosecution. Justice Katzmann was for many years a Lecturer on Law at Harvard University, and also a Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the Governance Institute, directing a project on juvenile justice. He has taught at the Russian Procuracy Institute. He is the author of Inside the Criminal Process (W.W. Norton), and the editor and contributing author of Securing Our Children's Future: New Approaches to Juvenile Justice and Youth Violence (Brookings Press/Governance). He is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Discovering Justice Program, the Board of the Thomas J. Drinan Fellowship at Suffolk University Law School, and has been a member of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. Justice Katzmann received his A.B., summa cum laude 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, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He served as a law clerk to Judge Leonard B. Sand of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and to then Circuit Judge Stephen G. Breyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.