Kathleen M. O'Sullivan

Kathleen M. O'Sullivan
Personal details
Born (1969-08-21) August 21, 1969
New York City, New York, U.S.
Education Yale College (BA)
Georgetown Law (JD)

Kathleen Murray O'Sullivan (born August 21, 1969) is a Washington attorney in private practice and a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Biography

O'Sullivan was born on August 21, 1969 in New York, New York.[1] O’Sullivan received a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Yale University in 1991 and her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 1996.

She has spent the entirety of her legal career at Perkins Coie, with the exception of the two years she spent clerking. She served as a law clerk to Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1998 to 1999 and to Judge Harold H. Greene of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1996 to 1997.

She is a partner in the Seattle, Washington law firm of Perkins Coie, where she specializes in appellate and commercial litigation. She joined the law firm as an associate in 1997 and was elevated to partner in 2004.[2] She serves on the Council of the American Law Institute.[3]

Failed nomination to district court under Obama

On April 14, 2016, President Obama nominated O'Sullivan to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, to the seat vacated by Judge Marsha J. Pechman, who took senior status on February 6, 2016. That nomination expired on January 3, 2017, with the end of the 114th Congress.[4]

Renomination to district court under Trump

On July 13, 2018, President Trump announced his intention to re-nominate O'Sullivan to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.[5] President Trump nominated O'Sullivan to the seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington vacated by Judge Marsha J. Pechman, who took senior status on February 6, 2016.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Lawyer Central profile
  2. ↑ "President Obama Nominates Three to Serve on the United States District Court" White House, April 14, 2016
  3. ↑ "Newly Elected Council Members  : The American Law Institute". 2015annualmeeting.org. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
  4. ↑ "Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate" White House, April 14, 2016
  5. ↑ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Sixteenth Wave of Judicial Nominees, Sixteenth Wave of United States Attorney Nominees, and Eleventh Wave of United States Marshal Nominees". The White House. Retrieved 2018-07-13.
  6. ↑ "White House Announces Nominees to U.S. District Court for Western District of Washington" (PDF) (Press release). United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. July 16, 2018. Retrieved July 17, 2018.


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