Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law at Yale Law School, teaches and writes in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure, and constitutional law. Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, Stith was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where she investigated and prosecuted white-collar and organized-crime cases. Stith is serving or has served on the Board of Directors of Heterodox Academy; on the Professional Ethics Committee of the Connecticut Bar Association; as faculty sponsor and member of the Board of Directors of The [Women’s] Campaign School at Yale; on the Board of Directors of the Collateral Consequences Resource Center; as an adviser for two American Law Institute projects on the Model Penal Code; on the Committee on Law and Justice of the National Research Council; as a commissioner of the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women in Connecticut; as president of the Connecticut Bar Foundation; on the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees; as deputy dean and acting dean of Yale Law School; and, by appointment of the Chief Justice of the United States, on the Advisory Committee for the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. The second edition of her book on federal criminal law, “Defining Federal Crimes” (with D.R. Richman), was published in 2019; the third edition is due to be published online in 2027. Her book on the federal sentencing guidelines, “Fear of Judging” (with J.A. Cabranes), was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the ABA in 1999. A graduate of Dartmouth College, the Kennedy School of Government, and Harvard Law School, she clerked for Judge Carl McGowan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and for Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White. Upon completing her clerkships, she served as an economist with the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President.
