Kimba Maureen Wood was born on January 21,1944 and is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
21 Facts About Kimba Wood
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Kimba Wood was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, where she achieved senior status in 2009.
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In 1993, President Bill Clinton unsuccessfully nominated Kimba Wood to be United States Attorney General.
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Kimba 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.
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Kimba Wood's father was a career officer and speechwriter in the United States Army.
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Kimba Wood lived in Europe during her youth, where her father was stationed in several places, and she received early education at the Sorbonne.
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Kimba Wood then earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1969, where there were fewer than twenty women in her class.
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Kimba Wood became one of the first women to break into the male-dominated world of antitrust law, and became partner at LeBoeuf in 1978.
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On December 18,1987, based upon a recommendation from Senator Al D'Amato, Kimba Wood was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York vacated by Judge Constance Baker Motley.
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Kimba Wood was confirmed by a unanimous United States Senate on April 19,1988, and received her commission on April 20,1988.
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Kimba Wood was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 2006 to 2007.
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Kimba Wood served as Chief Judge from 2006 to 2009 and assumed senior status on June 1,2009.
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Kimba Wood employed the illegal immigrant at a time when it was legal to do so, before the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 made the hiring of illegal immigrants unlawful.
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In 1998, Wood presided over the case of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem v Christie's, Inc.
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On July 8,2010, Kimba Wood was the presiding judge over the US case against ten alleged Russian 'illegals' involved in the Illegals Program.
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Kimba Wood accepted the defendants' guilty pleas and sentenced all ten to time served.
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On November 19,2010, Wood received attention in connection with a letter to the court from Bennet M Epstein, an attorney, who asked for time off from a trial to attend his then-unborn grandson's bris, if the baby proved to be a boy.
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In 2016, Kimba Wood presided over the case against Dean Skelos, Republican majority leader of the New York State Senate, who was accused of federal corruption charges.
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Kimba Wood went by the name Kimba Wood Lovejoy from 1970 to 1982, until the time of their divorce.
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In 1982, Kimba Wood married Time magazine political columnist Michael Kramer.
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Kimba Wood was known for an alleged affair resulting in the breakdown of Frank Richardson's marriage, earning her the nickname of "The Love Judge".