GARY S. KATZMANN is a Fellow in the Program on Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Fellow of the Governance Institute.   He is director of the Governance Institute project on juvenile justice and youth violence, and is the editor and contributing author of that project’s book, Securing Our Children’s Future:  New Approaches to Juvenile Justice and Youth Violence (Brookings/Governance, 2002).

He is an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Massachusetts, based in Boston, where he has variously held the positions of Chief Appellate Attorney, Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, and Chief Legal Counsel, and has engaged in criminal and civil litigation in the trial and appellate courts. He has served on detail to the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. as an Associate Deputy Attorney General focusing on criminal justice policy (where his responsibilities included service as the Department’s representative to the United States Sentencing Commission), and also on detail to the FBI (where he drafted health care fraud legislation).  He is a recipient of the Department of Justice’s Director’s Award.  Among his publications is Inside the Criminal Process (W.W. Norton), a book that, translated into Russian, was used to teach Russian law enforcement and judicial officers. 

He has been a Lecturer on Law at Harvard University, and he has also taught at Yale and at the Russian Procuracy Institute program. Katzmann received his A.B. from Columbia College, an M.Litt. from Oxford University, an M.P.P.M. from Yale University, and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.  He served as a law clerk to then Circuit Judge Stephen G. Breyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Judge Leonard B. Sand of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.