Randall D. Katz
Education:
- J.D., Duke Law School
Randy Katz is an Adjunct Professor of Law. Randy has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida for over twenty years. He has prosecuted and tried a substantial number of significant economic and corporate crime, child exploitation, and violent crime matters. Randy regularly briefs and argues numerous complex civil and criminal cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He previously served as Special Counsel to the U.S. Attorney, helping to lead one of the busiest U.S. Attorney’s Offices in the nation.
Randy also served as Chair of a Florida Bar Grievance Committee and Chair of the Florida Supreme Court Circuit Professionalism Panel (Seventeenth Judicial Circuit). He received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service, one of the Department’s highest honors, for his role in one of Florida’s largest health care fraud prosecutions. He also received the Timothy Evans Memorial Award, given to the top federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida. Randy was named Nationwide Prosecutor of the Year by the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association for serving as the lead trial prosecutor in a $20 million financial fraud trial. He received the “Service to America” Medal for Law Enforcement and Homeland Security for his work on the largest global criminal case against a money service business, resulting in over a half a billion dollar financial penalty that was distributed to elderly victims.
Randy is a graduate of Duke Law School, with high honors, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Duke Law Journal. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a B.A. and B.S. double degree. After graduating from law school, Randy clerked for the Honorable Gerald B. Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and worked as a litigation associate at Ropes & Gray.