Kate Comerford Todd

Kate Comerford Todd

Kate Comerford Todd is deputy assistant and deputy counsel to the president in the Trump administration. Trump appointed her in 2019.

Todd was included on President Donald Trump’s (R) list of 20 potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees released on September 9, 2020. President Trump (R) nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the seat on September 26, 2020. For more information on the 2020 Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18, 2020, click here.

Biography

Todd received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She clerked for Judge Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Todd was also senior vice president and chief counsel of the United States Chamber Litigation Center and a partner with the firm Wiley, Rein & Fielding prior to her White House appointment.

Possible Donald Trump nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court

See also: Supreme Court vacancy, 2020

2020

On September 18, 2020, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, leaving a vacancy on the Supreme Court. The following day, President Donald Trump (R) said he would nominate a woman to replace Ginsburg. On September 26, 2020, President Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacancy.

Todd was among the women President Trump had previously identified as a potential Supreme Court nominee before nominating Amy Coney Barrett. President Trump released four lists of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees; two in 2016, one in 2017, and one in 2020. Click here for more information on the vacancy and nomination process.