Kathryn Booth

Biography

Kathryn Booth is a Visiting Professor of Law at the Belmont University College of Law, where she teaches Evidence, Criminal Procedure, Legal Writing, and White-Collar Crime.

Prior to joining the faculty at Belmont, Professor Booth served as the Deputy Criminal Chief of White-Collar Crime at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Tennessee.  In that role, Professor Booth supervised a wide variety of economic crimes investigations and prosecutions, including those involving health care fraud, multi-million-dollar bank fraud schemes, Ponzi schemes, criminal tax fraud, public corruption, embezzlement, civil rights, and identity theft. Prior to her appointment as a Deputy, Professor Booth spent ten years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the White-Collar section, where she successfully tried numerous complex federal criminal cases before a jury and briefed and argued appeals before the Sixth Circuit.

Professor Booth previously spent three years as a Legal Writing Instructor at Vanderbilt Law School. Prior to joining the USAO, Professor Booth was a Trial Attorney in the Department of Justice Tax Division, where she entered the Department through the DOJ honors program. After graduating from law school, Professor Booth was a judicial law clerk for Judge Barbara Milano Keenan on the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Professor Booth received her B.A. in Art History, cum laude, from Duke University, and her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center