Kate Stith, known as Kate Stith-Cabranes, is the Lafayette S Foster Professor of Law and the former acting dean of Yale Law School.
10 Facts About Kate Stith
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Kate Stith's appointment was announced on March 23,2009, by Yale University President Richard Levin, when former dean Harold Koh was nominated to serve as Legal Adviser of the Department of State.
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Kate Stith clerked for Judge Carl McGowan of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and for Supreme Court Justice Byron R White.
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From 1979 to 1980, Kate Stith was a staff economist for Jimmy Carter's Council of Economic Advisers.
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From 1981 to 1984, Stith was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York under John S Martin Jr.
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Kate Stith began teaching at Yale Law School in 1985.
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Kate Stith has participated in the National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice, the state of Connecticut's Professional Ethics Committee; the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women in Connecticut; the Women's Campaign School at Yale; and the Connecticut Bar Foundation.
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Kate Stith served on the Dartmouth College Board of Directors and as Deputy Dean of Yale Law School.
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On March 23,2009, Kate Stith was named Acting Dean of the Yale Law School, the first woman ever to be appointed to lead YLS.
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Kate Stith served on the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College from 1989 to 2000.