Robert Allen Katzmann (April 22, 1953 – June 9, 2021) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He served as chief judge from September 1, 2013, to August 31, 2020.
Robert A. Katzmann
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Chief Judge — U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Born 1953 in New York, NY
Died 2021 in New York, NY
FJC ID: 2828
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 11/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 269/year
Second Circuit Court of Appeals · 1999–2021
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
Professor of practice · 2021- Judicial Conference of the United StatesMember · 2013–2020
- Brookings InstitutionFellow · 1981–1999
- ↳acting program director · 1998
- Georgetown UniversityFaculty · 1984–1999
- ↳adjunct professor of law · 1984–1989
- ↳adjunct professor of public policy · 1987–1992
- ↳Walsh Professor of Government, professor of law and professor of public policy · 1992–1999
- Governance InstitutePresident · 1986–1999
- University of California, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. programVisiting professor · 1990–1992
Wayne Morse chair in law and politics · 1992
Special assistant to the director · 1986–1988
Law clerk , Hon. Hugh H. Bownes · 1980–1981
Appointments
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitChief Judge1999–2021 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
J.D. · 1980- Harvard UniversityPh.D. · 1978
- Harvard UniversityA.M. · 1976
- Columbia CollegeA.B. · 1973