Kate S. O'Scannlain

Kate S. O'Scannlain is an American attorney who served as the United States Solicitor of Labor in the Donald Trump Administration from 2017 to 2021. She was nominated on September 28, 2017, and officially confirmed by the United States Senate on December 21, 2017.

Kate S. O'Scannlain
United States Solicitor of Labor
In office December 21, 2017 – January 20, 2021
President	Donald Trump
Secretary	Alexander Acosta Eugene Scalia
Preceded by	Nicholas C. Geale
Succeeded by	Terri Johnson
Personal details
Born	(1977-02-05) February 5, 1977 (age 47)[citation needed] Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Relations	Diarmuid O'Scannlain (father)
Education	University of Notre Dame (BA, JD)

Early life and education

A native of Portland, Oregon, O'Scannlain earned her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame, graduating cum laude, and her Juris Doctor from Notre Dame Law School.^[1][2] O'Scannlain's father is Diarmuid O'Scannlain, a Judge who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Portland before entering senior status in 2016.^[3]

Career

Prior to joining the United States Department of Labor, O'Scannlain was a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, where she worked for 12 years in their Washington, D.C. office and specialized in commercial class-action litigation, contract disputes, insurance disputes, fraud and fiduciary duty claims, defamation claims, securities fraud, bankruptcy, and pension and retirement law.^[4] She has served as a regular volunteer with the Catholic Charities Legal Network Clinic.^[5] O'Scannlain is also a member of the conservative Federalist Society legal organization.^[6]

References

1. "About the Solicitor". www.dol.gov. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
2. Oregonian/OregonLive, Gordon R. Friedman | The (2017-10-04). "Trump picks attorney with Portland roots as Labor Dept.'s top lawyer". oregonlive. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
3. Dame, Marketing Communications: Web | University of Notre (6 October 2017). "Kate O'Scannlain, '99, '05 J.D., picked to be Labor Department's top lawyer | The Law School | University of Notre Dame". The Law School. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
4. Penn, Ben. "Meet the Most Powerful Labor Lawyer You've Never Heard Of". biglawbusiness.com. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
5. "Hon. Kate S. O'Scannlain - Practising Law Institute". www.pli.edu. Retrieved 2019-12-17.
6. Scarcella, Mike; September 29, Erin Mulvaney |; AM, 2017 at 09:14. "Trump Picks Kate O'Scannlain as DOL's Top Lawyer". ThinkAdvisor. Retrieved 2019-12-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)