Know Your Judge: Katherine B. Forrest

This week in Know Your Judge, we feature Judge Katherine B. Forrest of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

President Barack Obama nominated Forrest in 2011. Before a one-year stint as deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice, Forrest spent 20 years in the New York law firm Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP—12 of those as partner. Forrest is also an adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, a role that hasn’t been an issue in a high-profile case involving the university.

Next week, Forrest will be presiding over the first ...