Karin Immergut | |
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Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court | |
Assumed office May 19, 2024 | |
Appointed by | John Roberts |
Preceded by | Robert B. Kugler |
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon | |
Assumed office August 5,2019 | |
Appointed by | Donald Trump |
Preceded by | Anna J. Brown |
Judge of the Multnomah County Circuit Court | |
In office July 2009 –August 5,2019 | |
Appointed by | Ted Kulongoski |
Preceded by | Dale Koch |
Succeeded by | Steffan Alexander |
United States Attorney for the District of Oregon | |
In office October 3,2003 –July 2009 | |
President | George W. Bush Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Michael W. Mosman |
Succeeded by | Dwight Holton |
Personal details | |
Born | 1960 (age 64–65) New York City,U.S. |
Political party | Democratic (before 1998) Independent (1998–2001) Republican (2001–present) |
Spouse | James McDermott |
Education | Amherst College (BA) University of California,Berkeley (JD) |
Karin Johanna Immergut (born 1960) [1] is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon since 2019. She concurrently serves as a judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court since 2024.
Immergut was born in Brooklyn,New York City,in 1960. [2] [3] Her father was an Austrian chemist and her mother a Swedish mathematician. [3] Her parents married in Sweden and then immigrated to the United States,where Karin was born. [3]
Immergut graduated from Amherst College in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. From 1982 to 1984,she was a special assistant at the New York City Departments of Juvenile Justice and Corrections. [4]
Immergut then attended the UC Berkeley School of Law,where she was managing editor of the Boalt Hall Journal of Industrial Relations (now Berkeley Journal of Employment &Labor Law ). She graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California,Berkeley,in 1987. [4]
After law school she worked as a litigation associate at the law firm of Covington &Burling in Washington,D.C.,for one year.
Following private practice,Immergut served as an assistant United States attorney for the Central District of California in Los Angeles for six years. During her tenure in the Central District of California,she prosecuted several large-scale complex narcotics trafficking and money laundering cases and served as a deputy chief of the Narcotics Section and chief of the Training Section. [2] She then moved to Burlington,Vermont,to work for the firm Gravel &Shea for two years. [3]
Immergut served for five years as a deputy district attorney in Portland,Oregon,where she primarily prosecuted white collar crimes. In 1998,Immergut was a Multnomah County deputy district attorney when she went to work for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr,who was investigating then-President Bill Clinton. [3] Immergut personally questioned Monica Lewinsky in an August 6,1998,deposition. [5] In 2001,she joined the U.S. Attorney's office in Portland as an assistant U.S. attorney in the District of Oregon. Serving two years in the position,she prosecuted cases involving white collar crime and worked on Project Safe Neighborhoods,a national gun violence reduction initiative.
Immergut was sworn in as interim United States attorney on October 3,2003,and the United States Senate confirmed her nomination the same day. She was appointed by President George W. Bush to the position. [2] Bush signed her commission to serve as the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon on October 4,2003,and she was sworn in on October 8. [2] She succeeded Michael W. Mosman in that role.
As U.S. Attorney,Immergut served as the district's top federal law enforcement official. She managed a staff of approximately 107 people,including 51 assistant U.S. attorneys,who handled civil litigation on behalf of the United States and criminal investigations and prosecutions involving violations of federal law such as white-collar crime,narcotics trafficking,violent crime,money laundering,and cybercrime. [2] Immergut also served on the Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys. [6]
In January 2008,Immergut applied to succeed Judge Garr King on the United States District Court for Oregon. She was initially considered the leading candidate for the post as the preferred choice of U.S. Senator Gordon H. Smith. [5] But after news reports highlighted her role in the investigation of President Bill Clinton's sex scandal,she was not one of the final candidates for the position,which went to Marco A. Hernandez. [7] She re-registered as a Republican at the beginning of Bush's first term as president,in the same month that she went to work for Mosman. [5] She resigned from the office in July 2009 in order to be appointed as Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge. [8]
On June 7,2018,President Trump announced his intent to nominate Immergut to serve as a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. [9] On June 11,2018,her nomination was sent to the Senate. Trump nominated Immergut to the seat vacated by Judge Anna J. Brown,who assumed senior status on July 27,2017. [10] On October 24,2018,a hearing on her nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. [11]
On January 3,2019,her nomination was returned to the President under Rule XXXI,Paragraph 6 of the United States Senate. On January 23,2019,Trump announced his intent to renominate Immergut for a federal judgeship. [12] Her nomination was sent to the Senate later that day. [13] On February 7,2019,her nomination was reported out of committee by a 20–2 vote. [14] On July 31,2019,the Senate confirmed her nomination by voice vote. She received her judicial commission on August 5. [15]
Immergut was portrayed by Lindsey Broad in Impeachment:American Crime Story .
In 1996 Immergut moved to Portland,Oregon,where she married James T. McDermott and was hired by Multnomah County. [3]