Biographical Information of
The Honorable Mark R. Kravitz
United States District Judge

  
   Mark R. Kravitz is a Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, having been appointed to that position in 2003 by President George W. Bush. Judge Kravitz sits in New Haven, Connecticut. Before his appointment to the District Court, Judge Kravitz was a partner at the law firm of Wiggin & Dana, LLP, where he worked for nearly 27 years most recently as the Chair of the firm's Appellate Practice Group. In that capacity, he argued cases before the United States Supreme Court and in federal circuit courts and state supreme courts throughout the United States. Before joining Wiggin & Dana, Judge Kravitz served as a law clerk to Judge James Hunter, III, Circuit Judge, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and to Chief Justice (then Justice) William H. Rehnquist, of the United States Supreme Court.

   Judge Kravitz is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was Managing Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal, and from Wesleyan University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

   From 2001 to 2007, Judge Kravitz served, by appointment of the Chief Justice of the United States, as a Member of the Standing Committee on the Rules of Practice and Procedure in the United States Courts, the body that oversees the rules of procedure and evidence that apply in all federal courts. During that period, he also served as the liaison member of the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules. In June 2007, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. appointed Judge Kravitz to Chair the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, the body that oversees the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Since 1999, Judge Kravitz has also served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and from 1997-2003, he served on the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules of the Connecticut Supreme Court. He is a Fellow of the American Law Institute and a Fellow and former Director of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.

   From 1999-2003, Judge Kravitz was a regular columnist and commentator for the National Law Journal on appellate law. He has also authored numerous articles on a variety of topics. Judge Kravitz served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law from January 1995-2001 and a Lecturer in Law at the Yale University Law School in 2000. In 2006, Judge Kravitz was appointed a Senior Fellow in Law at the University of Melbourne Graduate School of Law, in Melbourne, Australia, where he taught a course entitled "Effective Written Advocacy" in the spring of 2006.

   Judge Kravitz and his wife, Wendy Evans Kravitz, have three children and live in Guilford, Connecticut.