Sally Katzen

Sally Katzen is a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law. Among other roles in public service, Katzen led the Obama-Biden Transition's Agency Review Group from 2008–2009, served as Deputy Director for Management in the Office of Management and Budget from 1991–2001, was Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council from 1998–1999, and was Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget from 1993–1998. Outside of government, Katzen was a Partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and held numerous leadership positions in the American Bar Association. She has taught at Georgetown Law School, George Washington University Law School, George Mason University Law School, the University of Michigan Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Johns Hopkins University, and Smith College. Katzen clerked for the Honorable J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Katzen is a 1964 graduate of Smith College and a 1967 graduate of the University of Michigan, where she was the first woman editor-in-chief of the Michigan Law Review.