Kimba Wood

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Kimba Maureen Wood (born 1944 in Port Townsend, Washington)^[1] 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.^[2] She has been the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York since August 1, 2006, succeeding then-future U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey.

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.^{[citation needed]}

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 undocumented immigrant as a nanny; although, unlike Baird, she had paid the required taxes on the employee and had broken no laws (Wood employed the undocumented immigrant at a time when it was legal to do so), 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.^[3]

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 have one son, Benjamin Wood Kramer. Wood is presently married to Wall Street financier Frank E. Richardson III, whom she wed in 1999.^{[citation needed]}

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^ Wood, Kimba Maureen. Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved January 21, 2007.
^ Federal Bar Council Second Circuit Redbook, 2003-2004, Vincent C. Allexander and Anne D. Alexander (eds.).
^ College row: Alumna joins trustees. (Winter 2001). Amherst Magazine (Amherst College). Retrieved January 21, 2007.