Thursday, August 13, 2020

Mizelle Nominated to District Judgeship (8/13/20)

President Trump nominated Kathryn Kimball Mizelle to be a District Judge for the Middle District of Florida.  See White House press release here.  The relevant part of the announcement is here (emphasis supplied):

Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, of Florida, to serve as Judge on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Kathryn Mizelle is an attorney at Jones Day, where her practice focuses on complex civil and criminal litigation and appeals.  Ms. Mizelle previously served at the Department of Justice as Counsel to the Associate Attorney General, a Trial Attorney in the Tax Division, and as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.  Ms. Mizelle also serves as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.  Upon graduation from law school, Ms. Mizelle served as a law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court, Judge Gregory G. Katsas of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Chief Judge William H. Pryor, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and Judge James S. Moody, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.  Ms. Mizelle earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from Covenant College, and her J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she served as the Executive Notes & Comments Editor of the Florida Law Review.

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Death of Sumner Redstone (8/12/20)

Sumner Redstone died on August 11, 2020.  See Wikipedia, here.  Also from Wikipedia:

After completing law school, Redstone served as special assistant to U.S. Attorney General Tom C. Clark (who later served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1949 to 1967) and then worked for the United States Department of Justice Tax Division in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, and thereafter entered private practice.

I am not sure about that Tax Division in San Francisco, but he did work in the Tax Division.  See Tax Division Alumnus in the Tax News (DOJ Tax Division Alunni News 10/27/15), here (quoting Estate of Redstone v. Commissioner, 145 T.C. 259, 261 (2015), here).

The New York Times obituary is here.