Colleen Kollar-Kotelly
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Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (born 1943 in New York) is a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC).
Kollar-Kotelly obtained her J.D. from The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law in 1968. From 1969 to 1972, Kollar-Kotelly was an attorney for the Department of Justice, after which she became chief legal counsel for St. Elizabeths Hospital.
In 1984, Kollar-Kotelly was appointed as an associate judge of the D.C. Superior Court. She served as deputy presiding judge from 1995 until her appointment to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton was confirmed in March of 1997. In May 2002, Chief Justice William Rehnquist appointed Judge Kollar-Kotelly to serve as the presiding judge of the FISC.
In August 2001, Kollar-Kotelly received national attention when she was chosen to preside over the appeal in United States v. Microsoft, an anti-trust case. The decision was reversed in part and upheld in part.
Judge Kollar-Kotelly has recently received criticism in a Washington Post article over her administration of the FISC particularly about what weight evidence taken from warrantless searches should be given to issuing subsequent search warrants for suspects of terrorism and espionage.
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