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  O'Malley, Kathleen M. "Kate"
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  2009-01-01  
 
NameKathleen M. "Kate" O'Malley
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44022, United States
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Born 00, 1956 (68 years)
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Mar 13, 2010 02:36pm
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InfoJudge Kathleen McDonald O'Malley has served as a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio since 1994. Judge O’Malley also regularly teaches patent litigation at Case Western Reserve University School of Law as Distinguished Visiting Jurist.

Prior to her appointment to the District Court, Judge O’Malley was First Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Staff to then-Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher. In that role, she supervised all litigation for the State of Ohio and counseled senior government officers on legal questions. Until 1991, she was in private practice in Cleveland at Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur LLP and at Jones Day. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

On the District Court, Judge O’Malley has handled numerous intellectual property cases, including while sitting by designation with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has called on Judge O’Malley to preside over several complex nationwide matters.

Judge O’Malley graduated from Kenyon College in 1979 (Phi Beta Kappa) and Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1982 (Order of the Coif). -WH

On September 20, 1994, O'Malley was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio vacated by John William Potter. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 7, 1994, and received her commission on October 12, 1994. On March 10, 2010, President Barack Obama nominated O'Malley to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.


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