Todd, KC

<p>==</p><p><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd</a>
</p><div id="mw-content-text" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" lang="en"><p><b>Kathryn Louise (Kate) Comerford Todd</b> was named June 8, 2007, by President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George W. Bush</a> to be an Associate Counsel to the President and Special Counsel to the President<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup> in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Office_of_Counsel" title="Office of Counsel">Office of Counsel</a>.

Todd, who recently served as a Partner specializing in Constitutional law at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wiley_Rein%26_Fielding" title="Wiley Rein & Fielding">Wiley Rein & Fielding</a>, LLP, with White House Counsel <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Fred_Fielding" title="Fred Fielding" class="mw-redirect">Fred Fielding</a>, and whose husband<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gordon_Todd" title="Gordon Todd">Gordon Todd</a> is "a current <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Supreme_Court" title="Supreme Court">Supreme Court</a> clerk" to Associate Justice <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Samuel_A.Alito,_Jr." title="Samuel A. Alito, Jr.">Samuel A. Alito, Jr.</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_note-2">[3]</a></sup>, "was a highly regarded young litigation partner at Wiley Rein."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_note-3">[4]</a></sup></p>

<h2>Contents</h2>

<ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#Profiles"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Profiles</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#Resources_and_articles"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Resources and articles</span></a>

<ul><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#Related_SourceWatch_articles"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Related SourceWatch articles</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#References"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#External_articles"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">External articles</span></a></li></ul>

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<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Profiles">Profiles</span></h2>

<p>From 2000 to 2001, Todd served as a Law Clerk to Associate Justice <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clarence_Thomas" title="Clarence Thomas" class="mw-redirect">Clarence Thomas</a> of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" class="mw-redirect">Supreme Court of the United States</a>. Earlier, she served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/J._Michael_Luttig" title="J. Michael Luttig">J. Michael Luttig</a>

of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Todd

received her bachelor's degree from Cornell University and her JD from

Harvard Law School.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_note-4">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_note-5">[6]</a></sup>

Todd is also "an adjunct assistant professor of Constitutional law at

Cornell-in-Washington, a residential multidisciplinary program that is

part of Cornell University."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_note-6">[7]</a></sup></p>

<h2> <span class="mw-headline" id="Resources_and_articles">Resources and articles</span></h2>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="Related_SourceWatch_articles">Related SourceWatch articles</span></h3>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bush%27s_White_House_Staff" title="Bush's White House Staff">Bush's White House Staff</a></li></ul>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span></h3>

<ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_ref-0">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/06/20070608-6.html">News Release: "Personnel Announcement,"</a> Office of the White House Press Secretary, June 8, 2007.</span></li><li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_ref-1">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E2DB133EF937A25750C0A9629C8B63">"WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Kathryn Comerford, Gordon Todd,"</a> <i>New York Times</i>, March 14, 2004.</span></li><li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_ref-2">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2006_fall/todd.htm">"Todd ’00 Earns Clerkship with Justice Alito; Virginia Third Among Law Schools in Number of Clerks This Term,"</a> University of Virginia School of Law, September 8, 2006.</span></li><li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_ref-3">↑</a> <span class="reference-text">David Lat, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abovethelaw.com/2007/02/musical_chairs_fred_fielding_b_1.php">"Musical Chairs: Fred Fielding Beefs Up the White House Counsel's Office,"</a> <i>AboveTheLaw.com</i>, February 14, 2007.</span></li><li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_ref-4">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/06/20070608-6.html">News Release: "Personnel Announcement,"</a> Office of the White House Press Secretary, June 8, 2007.</span></li><li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_ref-5">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E2DB133EF937A25750C0A9629C8B63">"WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Kathryn Comerford, Gordon Todd,"</a> <i>New York Times</i>, March 14, 2004.</span></li><li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Kate_Todd#cite_ref-6">↑</a> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E2DB133EF937A25750C0A9629C8B63">"WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Kathryn Comerford, Gordon Todd,"</a> <i>New York Times</i>, March 14, 2004.</span></li></ol>

<h3> <span class="mw-headline" id="External_articles">External articles</span></h3>

<ul><li>Deb Reichmann, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=78&sid=1161851">"White House Expands Its Legal Team,"</a> Associated Press (FederalNewsRadio.com), June 9, 2007.</li></ul>

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The U. S. Chamber of Commerce had another successful year. The court cut

back on class actions, favored arbitration and made it harder to sue

the makers of dangerous drugs and employers accused of workplace

discrimination.

“Anyone doubting that the most important story of the Roberts court is

its business rulings has not been paying enough attention,” said <a href="http://theusconstitution.org/about/people">Doug Kendall</a>, president of the <a href="http://theusconstitution.org/">Constitutional Accountability Center</a>,

a liberal group. “This term’s 5-4 rulings, all favoring the chamber,

move the law sharply to the right and to the great detriment of

consumers, employees, and other Americans trying to get their day in

court.”

<a href="http://www.chamberlitigation.com/kate-comerford-todd-vice-president-chief-counsel-appellate-litigation">Kate Comerford Todd</a>, a lawyer with <a href="http://www.chamberlitigation.com/">the chamber’s litigation unit</a>, said the group’s victories were routine and warranted.

“In the business cases in which the chamber filed this term,” she said,

“we did not see the court make new law. Instead, the court largely

reaffirmed its prior decisions and rejected new attempts by the

plaintiffs’ bar to contort federal law and procedures to suit their

purposes.”7/13</p><p itemprop="articleBody">---</p><p class="rteindent1 rteindent2">Kate Comerford Todd is vice president

chief counsel for appellate litigation for the National Chamber

Litigation Center (NCLC), the litigation arm of the U.S. Chamber of

Commerce. Todd has a broad range of government and private sector

experience, with particular expertise in federal appellate practice and

constitutional law.

Before joining the Chamber, Todd served

in the<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> White House as associate counsel to the president, </span>advising the

president and his staff on a wide range of legal and constitutional

issues. She also liaised with other officials in the executive branch

and consulted with members of Congress and their staff.

Prior to her service in the White

House, Todd was a partner in the appellate, litigation, and

communications practices of the firm Wiley, Rein & Fielding, in

Washington, D.C. She represented corporations in federal and state

litigation and regulatory matters and helped them develop and execute

national, multiforum legal strategies. Todd teaches the law of federal

courts at The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">George Washington University Law School,</span> and she taught

constitutional law at <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Cornell </span>University’s Washington program.

During the 2000 Term of the Supreme

Court of the United States, Todd served as a law clerk to <font color="#FF0000">Associate

Justice Clarence Thomas</font> and clerked for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the

United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Todd graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was executive editor of the <em>Harvard Law Review</em>.

She received her undergraduate degree in government, history, and

international relations from Cornell University, graduating cum laude in

history and with distinction in all subjects.</p><p>===

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