Fellows Biographies

Sally Katzen

(2007) – Since leaving government service in January 2001, she has been teaching both graduate students (George Mason University Law School, ‘06, ’07-’08; University of Michigan Law School, ’04 –’07; Johns Hopkins University, ‘03-’04; University of Pennsylvania Law School, ’03) and undergraduates (Smith College, ‘01-’04; Johns Hopkins University, ‘02,’06; University of Michigan in Washington Program ‘05-‘08). She served almost eight years in the Clinton Administration, first as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), then Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council in the White House, and then as the Deputy Director for Management at OMB. Before joining the Clinton Administration, Ms. Katzen was a partner in the Washington DC law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, specializing in regulatory and legislative matters. While in private practice, Ms. Katzen was an adjunct Professor at the Georgetown Law Center and served in various leadership roles in the American Bar Association (including Chair of the Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice and two terms as DC Delegate to the House of Delegates of the ABA), as well as President of the Federal Communications Bar Association and President of the Women’s Legal Defense Fund. She graduated magna cum laude from Smith College and magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was the first woman Editor in Chief of the Law Review. Following graduation from law school, she clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She also served in the Carter Administration for two years as the General Counsel of the Council on Wage and Price Stability in the Executive Office of the President.