Yvette Kane (née Pregeant; born October 11, 1953) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Yvette Kane
Pennsylvania Middle District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Born 1953 in Donaldsonville, LA
FJC ID: 2796
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 5/year
Pennsylvania Middle District Court · 1998–
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
- Female
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaSecretary of state · 1995–1998
- Private practice, Pennsylvania1993–1995
- Independent Regulatory Review CommissionChief counsel · 1991–1992
Commonwealth of PennsylvaniaDeputy attorney general · 1986–1991- Denver, ColoradoDeputy district attorney · 1980–1986
- State of ColoradoAssistant attorney general · 1978–1980
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionTrial attorney · 1977–1978
Appointments
1998–2018 · Appointed by William J. Clinton (Democratic)
Education
J.D. · 1976- Nicholls State UniversityB.A. · 1973