Katherine B. Forrest

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"Katherine Forrest" redirects here. For the Canadian-American writer, see Katherine V. Forrest .

Katherine Bolan Forrest (born February 13, 1964) is a partner at New York law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP , and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York .

Contents

• 1 Early life, education and personal life

• 2 Career

  • 2.1 Federal judicial service

  • 2.2 Significant cases

  • 2.3 Return to private practice

• 3 References

• 4 External links

Early life, education and personal life

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Katherine Bolan Forrest was born in New York in 1964 and grew up in Connecticut, one of six children. Her father, Richard S. Forrest , wrote mystery novels. Her mother, Mary Bolan Brumby, was a nurse. The family received food stamps for four years, beginning when Katherine was 12. They were homeless for six months. "I came from nothing," Forrest said. "I came from a father who made no money. He was a playwright and then a writer, and even though he published many books, I was a complete scholarship student all the way through."

Forrest attended Choate Rosemary Hall , a private school in Wallingford, Connecticut , on a scholarship, graduating in 1982. She earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors in 1986 from Wesleyan University . She received her Juris Doctor in 1990 from the New York University School of Law . She pursued a joint program at New York University that would have led to a J.D. and a Ph.D. in history, with an eye toward an academic career. Her focus shifted when she took a summer job at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP after her second year of law school. "I realized that commercial litigation was far more interesting than I thought it would be," Forrest said. She is the mother of two children.

Career

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Forrest joined the New York law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore right out of law school in 1990, becoming a partner in 1998 and handling an array of commercial litigation with a particular focus on antitrust, copyright and digital media. She was cited as one of the country's leading practitioners in the antitrust and intellectual property arenas in Chambers USA 2007: America's Leading Lawyers for Business. _The American Lawyer _ also cited Forrest as one of the top 50 young litigators in the U.S. and by Lawdragon as one of the leading litigators in the nation. In 2005, she was named in the Global Competition Review (GCR) in the "40 Under 40" issue "as one of the top competition practitioners or economists worldwide."

Forrest was also profiled in the GCR "as one of the top women antitrust practitioners worldwide." In 2010, Forrest represented United Airlines in winning approval for its merger with Continental Airlines . In October 2010, Forrest left Cravath when Assistant Attorney General Christine A. Varney recruited her to join the United States Department of Justice as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division .

Federal judicial service

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On May 4, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Forrest to fill a judicial seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York that had been vacated by Judge Jed S. Rakoff , who took senior status at the end of 2010. Obama nominated Forrest to the bench in May 2011 on the recommendation of U.S. Senator Charles Schumer of New York. The U.S. Senate confirmed Forrest in a voice vote on October 13, 2011.

She received her judicial commission on October 17, 2011. Forrest presided over several thousand cases, including more than 100 trials, and, in 2016, became chair of the Grievance Committee for the Southern District. On July 18, 2018, Forrest announced her resignation from the bench, effective September 11, 2018. After resigning from the federal bench, she returned to work as a firm’s litigation department partner at Cravath.

Significant cases

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In 2012, in _Hedges v. Obama _, Forrest issued a permanent injunction that blocked enforcement of Section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which authorized the president to order the military to [indefinitely detain](https://en.wikipedia.o

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