Kate Stith

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Kate Stith
Education Dartmouth College (BA)
Harvard University (JD, MPA)
Occupation(s)Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law and the former acting-Dean of Yale Law School
Spouse José A. Cabranes
Relatives Laura Denvir Stith (sister) [1]

Kate Stith, also known as Kate Stith-Cabranes, is the Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law and the former acting dean of Yale Law School. Her appointment was announced on March 23, 2009, by Yale University President Richard Levin, when former dean Harold Koh was nominated to serve as Legal Adviser of the Department of State. [2] Stith is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. [3]

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Education

Stith received a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College in 1973, a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1977 and a Masters of Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government also in 1977. She clerked for Judge Carl McGowan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and for Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White. [4]

Career

From 1979 to 1980, Stith was a staff economist for Jimmy Carter's Council of Economic Advisers. From 1980 to 1981, she served as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at DOJ. From 1981 to 1984, Stith was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York under John S. Martin Jr. and Rudy Giuliani, and focused on white collar and organized crime. [5]

Stith began teaching at Yale Law School (YLS) in 1985.

Her interest in criminal procedure has led her to serve as an adviser to the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code Sentencing and, following an appointment by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. She has also participated in the National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice, the state of Connecticut's Professional Ethics Committee; the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women in Connecticut; the Women's Campaign School at Yale; and the Connecticut Bar Foundation (as President). Stith served on the Dartmouth College Board of Directors and as Deputy Dean of Yale Law School. [6]

On March 23, 2009, Stith was named Acting Dean of the Yale Law School, the first woman ever to be appointed to lead YLS. She was one of the witnesses who testified in favor of Sonia Sotomayor during her Supreme Court confirmation hearings. [7] She served on the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College from 1989 to 2000. [8]

Works

Stith has published extensively in law journals. [9] Her book, Fear of Judging, written with her husband, José Cabranes, won a Certificate of Merit from the American Bar Association in 1999. [10]

Personal life

Stith is married to Judge José A. Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, [11] [12] and is the sister of Laura Denvir Stith, who served on the Missouri Supreme Court from 2001 to 2021. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ Sorkin, Michael D. (February 16, 2013). "Dick Stith dies, former Clayton mayor". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Yale Daily News - Koh named for State post". Archived from the original on 2009-05-24. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
  3. ↑ "Kate Stith - Yale Law School".
  4. ↑ List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 6); http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/KStith.htm
  5. ↑ Stith, Kate (October 25, 2020). "Kate Stith: Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Retrieved February 6, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Yale Law School: Biography". Archived from the original on 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
  7. ↑ Serwer, Adam (2009-07-13). "Meet the Cast of the Sotomayor Hearings". The American Prospect . Retrieved 2009-07-17.
  8. ↑ "Trustees Emeriti". Dartmouth College. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Yale Law School | Publications". Archived from the original on 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
  10. ↑ "Yale Law School | Biography". Archived from the original on 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2010-09-18.
  11. ↑ Puerto Rico Herald: Profile: Judge José A. Cabranes
  12. ↑ New York Times: Society: José Cabranes and Kate Pressman Wed
  13. ↑ Judge Laura Denvir Stith
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