Who appointed Gary S. Katzmann?

President Barack Obama appointed Gary S. Katzmann to the U.S. Court of International Trade in 2016.

Was Gary S. Katzmann appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Gary S. Katzmann was appointed by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Gary S. Katzmann's confirmation vote?

Gary S. Katzmann was confirmed by voice vote on June 6, 2016. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

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Gary S. Katzmann

Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade

Appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016 and confirmed by voice vote, Gary S. Katzmann is a Judge on the U.S. Court of International Trade. He earned a law degree from Yale Law School in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1953 · age 73
Appointed by: Barack Obama, 2016
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Columbia College 1973 · Yale Law School 1979
Succeeded: Jane A. Restani

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2016	U.S. Court of International Trade succeeded Jane A. Restani	Obama (D)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Columbia College	A.B.	1973
University of Oxford	M.Litt.	1976
Yale Law School	J.D.	1979
Yale School of Organization and Management	M.P.P.M.	1979

Before the bench

Professional career before and outside the federal bench, as recorded by the Federal Judicial Center.

Law clerk, Hon. Leonard B. Sand, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York	1979-1980
Law clerk, Hon. Stephen G. Breyer, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit	1980-1981
Research associate, Center for Criminal Justice, Harvard Law School, 1981-1983; special investigator, Administrative Board	1982-1983
Assistant U.S. attorney, District of Massachusetts, 1983-2004; chief appellate attorney, 1983-1993, 1997-1998; deputy chief, Criminal Division, 1989; chief legal counsel to U.S. attorney	1989-1992
Associate deputy attorney general, U.S. Department of Justice (on detail)	1993-1994
Attorney, Office of the Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation (on detail)	1994-1995
Lecturer on law, Harvard Law School	1990-1994, 1997
Governance Institute, Washington, D.C., 1997-2003; research fellow and project director, 1997-2001; fellow	2002-2003
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1997-2003; research fellow and project director, 1997-2001; fellow	2002-2003
Associate justice, Massachusetts Appeals Court	2004-2016
Faculty member, NYU Law School Institute of Judicial Administration, New Appellate Judges Seminar	2013-
Visiting lecturer on law, Yale Law School	2022

Judicial Record

In our data, Katzmann authored 49 published opinions for the court (2020–2025). Most cited: SMA Surfaces, Inc. v. United States (10 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2023	SMA Surfaces, Inc. v. United States	658 F. Supp. 3d 1325	10
2024	Ninestar Corp. v. United States	687 F. Supp. 3d 1308	9
2024	Matra Americas, LLC v. United States	681 F. Supp. 3d 1339	8
2020	Sea Shepherd New Zealand v. United States	469 F. Supp. 3d 1330	8
2020	Invenergy Renewables LLC v. United States	476 F. Supp. 3d 1323	7
2023	Goodluck India Ltd. v. United States	670 F. Supp. 3d 1353	6
2023	SMA Surfaces, Inc. v. United States	617 F. Supp. 3d 1263	6
2023	Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.S. v. United States	633 F. Supp. 3d 1276	5
2020	Dong-A Steel Co. v. United StatesPublic version posted 10/01/2020.	475 F. Supp. 3d 1317	5
2023	Kaptan Demir Çelik Endustrisi ve Ticaret A.S. v. United States	666 F. Supp. 3d 1334	4
2020	Invenergy Renewables LLC v. United States	450 F. Supp. 3d 1347	4
2020	Bebitz Flanges Works Private Ltd. v. United States	433 F. Supp. 3d 1309	4
2023	Seneca Foods Corp. v. United States	663 F. Supp. 3d 1325	3
2023	Sea Shepherd New Zealand v. United States	611 F. Supp. 3d 1406	3
2020	United Steel & Fasteners, Inc. v. United States	469 F. Supp. 3d 1390	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 49 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

Who appointed Gary S. Katzmann?: President Barack Obama appointed Gary S. Katzmann to the U.S. Court of International Trade in 2016.
Was Gary S. Katzmann appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Gary S. Katzmann was appointed by President Barack Obama, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Gary S. Katzmann's confirmation vote?: Gary S. Katzmann was confirmed by voice vote on June 6, 2016. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is Gary S. Katzmann on?: Gary S. Katzmann is a Judge on the U.S. Court of International Trade.

Sources

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10 years on the U.S. Court of International Trade. Data as of 2026-09-28. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).