On January 23, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Kayatta to serve as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Kayatta is also a former Chair of the Professional Ethics Commission for Maine lawyers. He has also received special recognition awards from the Disability Rights Center of Maine, the Maine Equal Justice Partners, and the Maine Children's Alliance for his pro bono representation of disabled Maine children. Dana Award for his career-long pro bono efforts on behalf of low-income Maine citizens. In 2010, the Maine Bar Foundation presented him with the Howard H. He has served as president of the Maine Bar Foundation. Approximately four years later, after he had become a Judge, the United States Supreme Court adopted his Special Master's Report in full. In April 2011, the Supreme Court of the United States appointed him to serve as special master in an interstate water-rights dispute, Kansas v. In 2010, he served as the lead investigator for the American Bar Association committee that reviewed the qualifications of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. He also has argued two cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. He became partner in 1986 and has focused his practice on complex trial and appellate litigation. In 1980, Kayatta joined the Portland, Maine, law firm Pierce Atwood LLP as an associate. Coffin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit from 1979 to 1980. After law school, he served as a law clerk for Chief Judge Frank M. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 from Amherst College and then earned a Juris Doctor in 1979 from Harvard Law School. Kayatta was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1953.

(born October 27, 1953) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

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