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Cathy Bissoon

Cathy Bissoon

57th Commissioned Judge,
U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania

  

Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania

Federal Judicial Service: Appointed by President Barack Obama October 19, 2011

Professional Career:
Law Clerk to the Honorable Judge Gary L. Lancaster (1994-1995) Association, 1974-1979
Associate and Partner, Reed Smith ( 1993-1994, 1995-2007) Director of Diversity, Reed Smith (200 1-2007)
Director, Cohen & Grigsby (2007-2008)
U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (2008-2011)

Education:
Alfred University, BA, summa cum laude, 1990
Harvard Law School, JD 1993

Personal:
Born 1968 in Brooklyn, NY

Personal Interests:
Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America (2006-2008)
Pennsylvania's Interbranch Commission on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness (inaugural member) Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers (multiple years)
Honorable Thurgood Marshall Award (2006)
Woman of Integrity Award (2010)
First woman of South Asian descent to sit on a federal court in the United States First Asian American Article III judge in Pennsylvania
First Hispanic female Article III judge in Pennsylvania
First woman of color on U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania