Who is Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, the federal judge who blocked Biden's travel mask mandate?

[Mr. Sparkle]

A little-known federal judge appointed by former President Donald Trump found herself in the national spotlight on Monday after striking down the Biden administration's public transportation mask mandate. US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has been serving as a federal judge in Florida for more than a year. Notably, the Senate vote confirming her to the lifetime appointment came in mid-November 2020, after the presidential election. She had been given a "not qualified" rating by the American Bar Association, based on her limited amount of experience post-law school.

Before becoming a judge, she was an associate with the law firm Jones Day in Washington, DC, and an adjunct law professor at her alma mater. Mizelle held four federal clerkships throughout her career, including one with US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from 2018 to 2019. From 2017 to 2018, she was counsel to one of the third-ranking officials at the Justice Department, then-Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand, where she oversaw the Tax Division and led the administration's efforts to promote free speech on college campuses.

She spent about three years as a trial attorney for the Justice Department's Tax Division, where she prosecuted white-collar crimes, and before that was a special assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia for a year, she told the Senate Judiciary Committee. According to the American Bar Association, the two cases she had tried to verdict were when she said she was a certified legal intern for Florida's state attorney's office and still in law school. A member of the Federalist Society, Mizelle, then 33, was nominated by Trump in early September 2020, in a confirmation without any support by Senate Democrats, who were in the minority at the time.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/who-is-judge-kathryn-kimball-mizelle-biden-mask-mandate/index.html

[hamsterjill]

1. She clerked with Clarence Thomas

That’s all that needs to be said.

[Frustratedlady]

10. Suppose Ginni pushed Trump to pick her? Isn't Ginni also a member of the Federalist Society?

I swear I heard someone on the news say she had attended Liberty U. That seems to be a source for Repukes to choose from.

[spanone]

2. These trump judges will haunt my grandchildren.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Overconfident face and sourpuss lips. There's a Lake Mizelle in Winter Park.

I have no idea if they're related.

[TwilightZone]

4. She's Lauren Boebert in a robe.

Even looks a little like her.

[Walleye]

5. It's infuriating considering the way they battered Judge Jackson

This is a non-qualified judge confirmed during the lame duck session. I remember McConnell saying that the people should have the right to decide who picks judges. By the people he means Republicans in Congress

[eppur_se_muova]

6. But her husband was a TFG loyalist who worked for DHS and now works for Jared Kushner. nt

https://www.google.com/search?q=who+is+chad+mizelle

[Takket]

7. I thought the right hated "activist judges"

This person decided for the entire country what the definition of “sanitation” is, not from any scientific or medical perspective, but from her own. She essentially created her own law. This is what “activist” means

I am disappointed DOJ is only going to appeal if CDC says the mandate is needed. That shouldn’t matter. What matters here is making sure CDC has the ability to literally save American lives if Covid or sone other virus surges. Frankly, embarrassing the judge for this awful ruling is needed as well because it sets a horrible Precident for any similar cases going forward if it stands.

What if, for example, a judge finds the requirements to sanitize medical instruments oversteps the governments bounds, simply because they have their own definition of one word?

[Thomas Hurt]

8. The Pig was only concerned with two things when choosing nominees...

they were federalist society members and they were young. Political officers installed in the courts.

[JanMichael]

9. In 10 years, when she is 45, I bet they try to make her a SC Justice.

If that happens then fuck us. The "system" is BROKE. Actually with this lightly experienced "judge" deciding anything that impacts people's lives the "system" is already gone.

[Hoyt]

11. Sure I can come up with a reason to hate this judge; however, not sure her decision on CDC mandate

is wrong, especially at this point.

I don't believe mask mandates should come from CDC. Such things should come from Executive Branch, with imput from CDC, Infectious Disease, etc.

While I believe the CDC did the best they could regarding COVID, they did mess up the mask messaging early on and they royally screwed up testing. I'm sure presence of trump helped them screw things up.