Kimba Wood

Kimba (Maureen) Wood (born 1944) is a U.S. federal judge. A graduate of Connecticut College (B.A., 1965), London School of Economics, (M.Sc., 1966), and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1969), she was nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by Ronald Reagan in 1987 and was confirmed by a unanimous Senate. She has been the Chief Judge of the Southern District since August 1, 2006.

One of Judge Wood's most famous decisions was sentencing Michael Milken, known as "The Junk Bond King", to ten years in prison.

Judge Wood was Bill Clinton's second unsuccessful nominee for attorney general in 1993. Like Clinton's previous nominee, Zoe Baird, Wood had hired an illegal immigrant as a nanny; although, unlike Baird, she had paid the required taxes on the employee and had broken no laws, the threat of a repetition of the same controversy ultimately led to a withdrawal of the nomination. Janet Reno was later nominated and confirmed for the post. During the vetting process for her nomination to be U.S. Attorney General, it was also noted that Ms. Wood had considered a job as a Playboy Bunny in her youth.

Later, in 1998, Judge Wood presided over the case of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem v. Christie's, Inc., in which the ownership of the Archimedes Palimpsest was disputed. Judge Wood also later presided over Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc., 88 F. Supp 2d 116 (S.D.N.Y. 1996), more widely known as the Pepsi Points Case.

Judge Wood has also served on the Amherst College Board of Trustees, ended her term in 2001.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ "College Row: Alumna joins Trustees" Amherst Magazine Winter 2001. Amherst College.

References

• Judges of the United States Courts—Wood, Kimba Maureen

External links

• Underneath Their Robes: Bodacious Babes of the Bench: The Female Superhotties of the Federal Judiciary!
• Profile of Kim M. Wood '69—Harvard Law Bulletin
• "Kimba Wood Emerges as No. 1 Attorney General Candidate" Los Angeles Times article

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