Kimba Wood

Kimba Wood
Wood in 1991
Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Incumbent
Assumed office
June 1, 2009
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
In office
August 1, 2006 – June 1, 2009
Preceded byMichael Mukasey
Succeeded byLoretta A. Preska
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
In office
April 20, 1988 – June 1, 2009
Appointed byRonald Reagan
Preceded byConstance Baker Motley
Succeeded byVincent L. Briccetti
Personal details
Born
Kimba Maureen Wood

(1944-01-21) January 21, 1944 (age 80)
Port Townsend, Washington, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic[1]
EducationConnecticut College (BA)
London School of Economics (MSc)
Harvard University (JD)

Kimba Maureen Wood (born January 21, 1944)[2][3] is an American judge who is a senior district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.[4][5]

Wood received her undergraduate education at Connecticut College before gaining an MSc at the London School of Economics. In 1969, she earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, where she achieved senior status in 2009. In 1993, President Bill Clinton unsuccessfully nominated Wood to be United States Attorney General.

Wood has presided over many high-profile cases involving such figures as "Junk Bond King" Michael Milken, Republican majority leader of the New York State Senate Dean Skelos, and Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen.[4]

  1. ^ Feuer, Alan; Weiser, Benjamin (April 19, 2018). "Hearing the Cohen Case: A Soft-Spoken Judge Who 'Carries a Big Stick'". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.
  2. ^ Cohen, Warren (May 1994). "A Judge of Character". Connecticut College Magazine. 3 (6). Connecticut College: 20–25.
  3. ^ Kimba Maureen Wood at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
  4. ^ a b Feuer, Alan; Weiser, Benjamin (April 18, 2018). "Hearing the Cohen Case: A Soft-Spoken Judge Who 'Carries a Big Stick'". The New York Times.
  5. ^ "Judge Kimba Wood a Veteran of Big Cases Long Before Cohen". The New York Times. The Associated Press. April 19, 2018.