Who appointed Kimba Maureen Wood?

President Ronald Reagan appointed Kimba Maureen Wood to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1988.

Was Kimba Maureen Wood appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

Kimba Maureen Wood was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was Kimba Maureen Wood's confirmation vote?

Kimba Maureen Wood was confirmed by voice vote on April 19, 1988. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Southern District of New York / Appointed 1988 / Senior status since 2009

Kimba Maureen Wood

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1988 and confirmed by voice vote, Kimba Maureen Wood is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She earned a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1969. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Appointed by: Ronald Reagan, 1988
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Connecticut College for Women (now Connecticut College) 1965 · Harvard Law School 1969
Succeeded: Constance Baker Motley
Succeeded by: Vincent Louis Briccetti

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1988	Southern District of New York succeeded Constance Baker Motley	Reagan (R)	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

Connecticut College for Women (now Connecticut College)	B.A.	1965
London School of Economics and Political Science	M.Sc.	1966
Harvard Law School	J.D.	1969

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Wood was assigned 6,147 district-court cases (1982–2025). Median time from filing to termination: 181 days across 6,110 closed cases.

Prisoner & habeas27%

Contract20%

Civil rights13%

Labor & ERISA8%

Personal-injury torts7%

Intellectual property7%

Other18%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 486 of Wood’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 453 were affirmed, 18 reversed or vacated, and 15 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Wood authored 140 published opinions for the court (1988–2011). Most cited: Senno v. Elmsford Union Free School District (210 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2011	Senno v. Elmsford Union Free School District	812 F. Supp. 2d 454	210
1995	Pilates, Inc. v. Pilates Institute, Inc.	891 F. Supp. 175	83
2011	Arista Records LLC v. Lime Group LLC	784 F. Supp. 2d 398	69
1992	Kenai Corp. v. National Union Fire Insurance (In Re Kenai Corp.)	136 B.R. 59	61
2004	Ernst & Young & Ernst & Young, LLP v. Bankruptcy Services, Inc. (In Re CBI Holding Co.)	311 B.R. 350	46
1992	Wegoland, Ltd. v. Nynex Corp.	806 F. Supp. 1112	44
1999	McAllister v. New York City Police Department	49 F. Supp. 2d 688	42
1997	Berman v. Parco	986 F. Supp. 195	42
1995	Roberts v. Scully	875 F. Supp. 182	37
1993	Securities & Exchange Commission v. Musella	818 F. Supp. 600	36
1995	Landy v. Irizarry	884 F. Supp. 788	35
1999	Adeniji v. Administration for Children Services	43 F. Supp. 2d 407	33
2011	MARKS ORGANIZATION, INC. v. Joles	784 F. Supp. 2d 322	32
1999	Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc.	88 F. Supp. 2d 116	31
1998	Maltz v. Union Carbide Chemicals & Plastics Co.	992 F. Supp. 286	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 140 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 Kimba Maureen Wood?: President Ronald Reagan appointed Kimba Maureen Wood to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1988.
Was Kimba Maureen Wood appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: Kimba Maureen Wood was appointed by President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was Kimba Maureen Wood's confirmation vote?: Kimba Maureen Wood was confirmed by voice vote on April 19, 1988. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court is Kimba Maureen Wood on?: Kimba Maureen Wood is a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Sources

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38 years on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).