Everything about Kimba Wood totally explained
Kimba Maureen Wood (born 1944 in
Port Townsend, Washington) 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), Wood 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 entered on duty on July 28, 1988. She has been the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York since
August 1,
2006.
One of Judge Wood's most famous decisions was sentencing
Michael Milken, known as "The
Junk Bond King", in 1990 to ten years in prison; the sentence was reduced to two years imprisonment and three years probation in 1991.
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'd paid the required taxes on the employee and had broken no laws other than employment of an illegal immigrant, 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.
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, ending her term in 2001.
Her first husband was Robert (Bob) Lovejoy, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Her second husband was political columnist Michael Kramer. Divorced in 1996, they've one son,
Benjamin Wood Kramer. Wood is presently married to Wall Street financier Frank E. Richardson III, whom she wed in 1999.
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