Katharine Hayden
| Katharine Hayden | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the District of New Jersey | |
| Title: | Senior Judge |
| Position: | Seat #2 |
| Station: | Newark, NJ |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Bill Clinton |
| Active: | 09/29/1997 - 05/29/2010 |
| Senior: | 05/30/2010 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Lee Sarokin |
| Succeeded by: | Esther Salas |
| Past post: | New Jersey Superior Courts, Judge |
| Past term: | 1991 - 1997 |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1942 |
| Home State: | New York, NY |
| Bachelors: | Marymount Manhattan College, B.A., 1963 |
| Law School: | Seton Hall U. Law, J.D., 1975 |
| Grad. School: | Seton Hall U., M.A., 1971 |
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Katharine Sweeney Hayden is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. She joined the court in 1997 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton. She is serving the count on senior status.
Early life and education
A native of New York, Hayden graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with her Bachelor's Degree in 1963 and later graduated from Seton Hall University with her Master's Degree in 1971 and her Juris Doctor in 1975. [1]
Professional career
Hayden began her legal career as a law clerk to State Supreme Court Justice Robert Clifford in the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1975 to 1976. In 1976, Hayden joined the US Attorney's Office and became an Assistant U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1976 to 1978. Then from 1978 to 1991, Hayden was a private practice attorney for the State of New Jersey. In 1991, Hayden was appointed by New Jersey Governor James Florio as Judge for the Superior Court of New Jersey 1991 to 1997. [1]
Judicial career
District of New Jersey
On the unanimous recommendation of U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg and Frank Torricelli, Hayden was nominated by President Bill Clinton on May 6, 1997, to a seat vacated Lee Sarokin. Hayden was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 25, 1997 on a Senate vote and received commission on September 29, 1997. Hayden assumed senior status on May 30, 2010. [1]
Notable cases
A notable case on this page needs to be updated.
Schering-Plough tax refund
Judge Hayden ruled on August 31, 2009 that Schering-Plough could not receive a $473 million dollar tax refund in relation to two tax shelters the company used in 1991 and 1992. The judge ruled that the company used the shelter to avoid taxes on $690 million in profits. Attorneys for Schering-Plough plan to appeal the ruling to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. [2]
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| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Lee Sarokin |
District of New Jersey 1997–2010 Seat #2 |
Succeeded by: Esther Salas |
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| 1993 |
Adams • Ambrose • Barnes • Brinkema • Bucklew • Chasanow • Coffman • Daughtrey • Ferguson • Ginsburg • Hagen • Jackson • Lancaster • Leval • Lindsay • Messitte • Michael • Piersol • Saris • Schwartz • Seybert • Shanahan • Shaw • Stearns • Trager • Vazquez • Wilken • Wilson | ||
| 1994 |
Baer • Barkett • Batts • Beaty • Benavides • Bennett • Berrigan • Biery • Block • Borman • Breyer • Briones • Bryson • Bucklo • Burgess • Burrage • Cabranes • Calabresi • Carr • Casellas • Castillo • Chatigny • Chin • Cindrich • Coar • Collins • Cooper • Cote • Currie • Davis • Dominguez • Downes • Duval • Friedman • Furgeson • Garcia • Gertner • Gettleman • Gillmor • Gilmore • Gleeson • Haggerty • Hamilton • Hannah • Hawkins • Henry • Holmes • Hood • Hull • Hurley • Jack • Jones • Jones • Kaplan • Katz • Kern • Kessler • Koeltl • Lisi • Manning • McKee • McLaughlin • Melancon • Miles-LaGrange • Moore • Motz • Murphy • O'Malley • O'Meara • Oliver • Paez • B. Parker • F. Parker • R. Parker • Perry • Ponsor • Pooler • Porteous • Rendell • Riley • Robertson • Rogers • Ross • Russell • Sands • Sarokin • Scheindlin • Silver • Squatrito • Stewart • Sullivan • Tatel • Thompson • Timlin • Urbina • Vanaskie • Vance • Walls • Wells • Williams | ||
| 1995 |
Arterton • Atlas • Black • Blake • Briscoe • Tena Campbell • Todd Campbell • Chesney • Cole • Collier • Daniel • Davis • Dennis • Dlott • Donald • Duffy • Economus • Evans • Fallon • Folsom • Gaughan • Goodwin • Heartfield • Hunt • Illston • Jones • King • Kornmann • Lawson • Lenard • Lucero • Lynch • McKinley • Moody • Moore • Moskowitz • Murphy • Murtha • Nugent • O'Toole • Orlofsky • Pogue • Sessions • C. Smith • O. Smith • Stein • Thornburg • Tunheim • Wallach • Wardlaw • Webber • Whaley • Winmill • Wood | ||
| 1996 |
Broadwater • Clevert • Fenner • Gershon • Gottschall • Greenaway • Hinkle • Jones • Kahn • Laughrey • Lemmon • Marten • Miller • Molloy • Montgomery • Pregerson • Rakoff • Sargus • Tashima • Thomas • Zapata | ||
| 1997 |
Adelman • Bataillon • Breyer • Caputo • Casey • Chambers • Clay • Damrell • Droney • Friedman • Gajarsa • Garland • Gilman • Gold • Gwin • Hall • Hayden • Hull • Ishii • Jenkins • Kauffman • Kennedy • Kimball • Kollar-Kotelly • Lazzara • Marbley • Marcus • Middlebrooks • Miller • Moon • Pratt • Rendell • Sippel • Siragusa • Snyder • Thrash | ||
| 1998 |
Aiken • Barbier • Barzilay • Berman • Buttram • Carter • Collins • Dawson • Dimitrouleas • Fletcher • Fogel • Frank • Graber • Hellerstein • Herndon • James • Johnson • Kane • Kelly • G. King • R. King • Lasnik • Lee • Lemelle • Lindsay • Lipez • Manella • Matz • McCuskey • McKeown • McMahon • Mickle • Mollway • Mordue • Moreno • Morrow • Munley • Murphy • Pallmeyer • Pauley • Polster • Pooler • Rawlinson • Ridgway • R. Roberts • V. Roberts • Sack • Scott • Seitz • Seymour • Shea • Silverman • Sleet • Sotomayor • Steeh • Story • Straub • Tagle • Tarnow • Trauger • Traxler • Tyson • Wardlaw • Whelan • Young | ||
| 1999 |
Alsup • Barry • Brown • Buchwald • Cooper • Eaton • Ellison • Feess • Fisher • Gould • Guzman • Haynes • Hibbler • Hochberg • Hurd • Huvelle • Jordan • Katzmann • Kennelly • Linn • Lorenz • Lynn • Marrero • Murguia • Pannell • Pechman • Pepper • Phillips • Schreier • Stewart • Underhill • Ward • Williams • Wilson | ||
| 2000 |
Ambro • Antoon • Battani • Berzon • Bolton • Brady • Bye • Cavanaugh • Daniels • Darrah • Dawson • Dyk • Fuentes • Garaufis • Garcia-Gregory • Gregory • Hamilton • Huck • Hunt • Lawson • Lefkow • Lynch • Martin • McLaughlin • Moody • Murguia • Paez • Pisano • Presnell • Rawlinson • Reagan • Schiller • Singal • Steele • Surrick • Swain • Tallman • Teilborg • Tucker • Whittemore | ||
