Prior to joining Jones Day, Kat served in the Tax Division at the Department of Justice (DOJ), where she prosecuted white collar offenses and led grand jury investigations of multimillion dollar tax shelters and fraudulent schemes. She also was a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, where she prosecuted the largest human trafficking case in that district's history.

In addition, Kat served as counsel to the Associate Attorney General. In that role, she oversaw the Tax Division, advised on appeals and trials, developed DOJ-wide regulatory reform policy, led DOJ's efforts to defend free speech on college campuses, and testified before the Administrative Conference of the United States.

Kat has served as a law clerk at every level of the federal judiciary, including for Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court. Kat also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of Florida (UF). In January 2020, she co-taught the course "Religion Clauses of the First Amendment" with Justice Thomas at UF.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41393861)

she needs actual life experience before becoming a god damn federal trial judge

gimme a break

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41393872)

*votes for 35yo faggot mayor of south bend for potus*

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41393924)

just an actual litigator

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41393932)

it's never been a requirement to have significant trial experience to be a USDJ. boomers and boomer bootlickers are just hating on youth.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41393954)

federalist society princesses with resumes like this are grating

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41393973)

I agree that it’s hard to picture the average 33 year old presiding over a federal district court. But experience for its own sake seems retarded. She’s far more likely to understand the issues than some idiot politically well connected 61 year old

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41393991)

For example the SAUSA is an unpaid volunteer position. And if she was doing it in the EDVA she was not leading the trial team as an attorney who hadnt practiced a year of actual law yet.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41393944)

name an age old enough for you

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41401030)

..he lisped, as Hawaii Judge rules the country can’t have borders because that’s racist

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41394064)

boomers got into high positions of power in their 30s without the relevant "experience" that the now demand of everyone below them while they cling to their positions in their 70s.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41393940)

any new USDJ is going to have a steep learning curve and need to do some on the job learning, no matter that "experience" he's had beforehand (unless he was a stattte trial judge, which isnt a likely A3 path). better to have someone with aptitude+ability. plus, young people learn quicker.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41396511)

State to USDC judge isn't that uncommon (we've got a couple of those where I mostly practice).

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41396801)

https://www.lcsonline.org/about-lcs/my-lcs-story/kathryn-kimball-mizelle/

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41394273)

"On a Monday evening in May of 2005, Lakeland Christian valedictorian Kathryn Kimball stood on the Branscomb Auditorium stage and challenged her fellow graduates to allow the Lord to lead them into the future."

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41395019)

https://am22.mediaite.com/lc/cnt/uploads/2020/02/Screen-Shot-2020-02-12-at-1.03.07-PM-1200x625.jpg

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41394500)

Totally agree with everyone saying she is too young and inexperienced tho. Raises doubts about efficacy of court. I don’t think you need to have trial experience (Plenty of law firm corporate partners and professors are impressive AF and have no experience but would make great judges) but if you don’t have it you better be experienced in some other way. She is not.

Not lib here.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41394534)

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/11/18/2020/nominations

Also might replace Torruela on the first circuit

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/president-donald-j-trump-announces-judicial-nominees-111320/

Leaves just one vacancy on the 7th circuit which I suppose they still have time to fill in theory

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41394545)

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed Friday to continue confirming both U.S. circuit and district court nominees through the lame-duck session and right up to the end of the 116th Congress, which must adjourn Jan. 3.

“We’re going to run through the tape. We go through the end of the year, and so does the president,” McConnell said Friday on the show of conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. “We’re going to fill the 7th Circuit. And I’m hoping we have time to fill the 1st Circuit as well.”

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McConnell has not indicated he will be letting up on his tradition-busting push to “leave no vacancy behind,” and Democrats don’t have many options to slow down the proceedings.

“We’re going to clean the plate, clean all the district judges off as well,” McConnell said.

https://www.rollcall.com/2020/10/30/mcconnell-senate-judges-lame-duck/

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41394670)

apparently it's a hallowed congressional tradition to leave empty seats in the judiciary.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41394682)

During previous presidential election years, senators have invoked the so-called Thurmond Rule, an unwritten agreement that calls for the chamber to stop approving circuit court nominations in the few months before Election Day.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=4693045&forum_id=2#41394843)