US Senates Confirms MTSU Alum As U.S. District Court Judge

Dec 18, 2020 at 12:05 pm by WGNS


(WASHINGTON DC)  The United States Senate confirmed MTSU alumni Katherine Crytzer to serve as U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee by a vote of 48-47.

US Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said, “I am glad the Senate voted to confirm Katherine Crytzer today to serve as a U.S. District Court Judge. Ms. Crytzer is an East Tennessee native and graduated from Middle Tennessee State University, summa cum laude. She has served for the last six years at the Justice Department and is currently the Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy. Before that, she served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Ms. Crytzer is now the second woman to be a federal district judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, and I know she will serve all Tennesseans well.”

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The current MTSU Magazine notes: 

Katie Crytzer (’06) served in an influential role in the decision-making of President Donald J. Trump’s administration well before her 40th birthday. Crytzer was acting deputy assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy, assisting Trump in filling judgeships across the country. This included helping shepherd Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh through a tumultuous, but successful, Senate confirmation hearing—a cultural and political flashpoint that became “must-see TV” around the world. “I was in the room with President Trump [for the first time] after Kavanaugh’s confirmation, which my office worked on,” Crytzer said. “It’s thrilling, humbling, and an honor to be doing the work each of us are doing every day.”

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