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Kiyo A. Matsumoto is a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York. At the time of her appointment in 2004, she was a Senior Trial Counsel at the United States Attorneys Office for the
Eastern District of New York, Civil Division. Judge Matsumoto is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a legal research and writing fellow.
Following her graduation from law school, Judge Matsumoto was a litigation associate at MacDonald, Hoague and Bayless in Seattle, Washington.
Thereafter, she joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, where she was appointed as a Deputy Chief, First Deputy Chief and Chief of the Civil Division. She also served as Chief of the Financial Litigation Unit, Civil Health Care Fraud Coordinator and Senior Trial Counsel. During her tenure at the United States Attorneys Office, she also served as an instructor in civil litigation, financial litigation and trial advocacy at the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute, the National Advocacy Center, and Office of Legal Education of the United States Department of Justice.
Judge Matsumoto was an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School, where she taught legal research and writing, and at New York University School of Law, where she taught a government civil litigation clinic and
seminar. She also served as a trustee and vice chair of the board of the Federal Bar Council, a member of the Second Circuit Courts Committee of the Federal Bar Council, a member of the Judiciary Committee and
the Federal Courts Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Vice Chair of the Mayor’s Committee on City Marshals, a member of the Joint Committee on Local Federal Rules for the Eastern and
Southern Districts of New York, and a member of the Eastern District of New York’s Committee on Civil Litigation.
Judge Matsumoto is also a member of the Asian American Bar Association of New York and National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.
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