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Kimba Wood

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The Resume

    (January 21, 1944- )
    Born in Port Townsend, Washington
    Middle name is Maureen
    Senior District Judge for the Southern District of New York (June 1, 2009 - )
    Chief Judge for the Southern District of New York (August 1, 2006–June 1, 2009)
    Judge for the Southern District of New York (April 20, 1988–June 1, 2009)
    Nominated by President Clinton to be the first woman to be U.S. Attorney General (later withdrawn)
    Presided over the Michael Cohen case (2018)

Why she might be annoying:

    She shares a first name with an Osamu Tezuka anime character.
    She officiated George Soros' wedding (giving fodder to conspiracy nuts).
    She was set to be nominated as Clinton's attorney general until a last minute New York Times report claimed she had hired an undocumented immigrant nanny caused her to withdraw from consideration.
    Ironically, this was the same problem that sunk the previous nominee Zoe Baird (so she quite literally had a 'Zoe Baird problem').
    She married her third husband, financier Frank Richardson, four years after being representing him in his divorce proceedings (did we mention his ex-wife found diary entries alluding his affair with Wood and made them public?).

Why she might not be annoying:

    She holds a masters degree from the London School of Economics.
    She trained for five days to be a bunny at the London Playboy Club.
    She earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1969, where just six percent of the class was women.
    She was one of the first women to break into the male-dominated antitrust law field.
    She was appointed to the bench by Ronald Reagan, a notable exception to the stream of conservative judges nominated by the Reagan White House.
    She was shafted over hiring an undocumented worker but had done so at a time when it was legal to do so, before the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 made the hiring of undocumented immigrants unlawful.
    She presided over the sentencing of financier Michael Milken, who pleaded guilty to securities fraud and racketeering.

Credit: BoyWiththeGreenHair


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 32 Votes: 87.50% Annoying