Cathy A. Harris serves as the Chair of KPWH’s Sexual Harassment and Sexual Orientation LGBT Practice sections, and is co-manager of the firm of Kator, Parks, Weiser & Harris, PLLC, in Washington, DC.
Ms. Harris has extensive experience in the litigation and settlement of federal sector class actions over the past decade. She has been counsel in at least five separate federal sector class actions, including Burden v. Barnhart, on behalf of African American males at the Social Security Administration, which settled for more than $7.8 million dollars.
She currently serves as class counsel in several certified class action cases currently pending before the EEOC. She also represents employees in individual employment matters before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and the federal courts.
Ms. Harris was honored as the 2010 “attorney of the year” by the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association, and she was named as a 2017 “Lawyer of the Year” in the practice area of Employment Law-Individuals in Washington, DC by Best Lawyers. Her areas of practice include employment, civil service, civil rights and general litigation at the administrative, trial and appellate levels, including cases involving sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination.
She graduated from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC with honors in 1997, where she received the Michael D. Cooley award for most successfully maintaining her compassion, vitality and humanity during law school and was elected to give the salutatory address at commencement.
She served on the George Washington University Law Review, as an Articles Editor (1997) and a Member (1996). Ms. Harris has been with Kator, Parks, Weiser & Harris, PLLC, since 1999, and became a Member of the firm in January 2005.
Ms. Harris received her undergraduate degree from Brown University in Providence, R.I., in 1994. She was admitted to practice law before the New York State Appellate Division, First Department in 1998, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1999, the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Federal Claims in 2000, and the State of Maryland in 2015.
Prior to joining Kator, Parks, Weiser & Harris, PLLC, Ms. Harris was an Assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office. She served as an Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University Law School from 2001 to 2004, teaching legal research and writing and oral advocacy to first-year law students.
Ms. Harris belongs to the Federal Circuit Bar Association, the National Employment Lawyers Association, and the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association. She has served in past years as the co-chair of the Merit Systems Protection Board Committee for the Federal Circuit Bar Association, and the treasurer of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association.
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Request to make a U.S. Office of Special Counsel Intelligence Disclosure Re: Cathy Harris et. al under 5 USC 1213(j)
Executive Summary (unclassified): This pro se request asks the Office of Special Counsel to accept an Intelligence Disclosure by a decorated national security whistleblower on the failure of Cathy A. Harris, acting U.S. Merit System Protection Board (MSPB) chair, to uphold the duties of her office instead of acting as a primary/supportive facilitator/accomplice in prohibited personnel practices relating to national security. The request focuses on her decision to neither investigate or even fairly evaluate disclosures by the Petitioner, one of the first national security whistleblowers to reject the illegal yet controversial pretensions of infamous National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden. Instead, she endorsed an illegal contract of adhesion for which enabling legal counsel later was one of Snowden’s foremost advocates. Harris’ decision came within days of the Petitioner’s disclosures about a second, higher-ranking federal official who also arguably committed treason as a government contractor accessing classified information. The Petition now before the OSC comes as a stench of scandal permeates the MPSB, its motives and operations crying out for public interest attention. Harris’ MSPB dismissed the Petitioner’s appeal in a specious review of the documentary record, in which an arms-length view as a whole of all non-frivolous allegations of violations of U.S. and international law was absent without leave. …
https://www.academia.edu/96441359/Request_to_make_a_U_S_Office_of_Special_Counsel_Intelligence_Disclosure_Re_Cathy_Harris_et_al_under_5_USC_1213_j_