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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Magistrate Judge Karen Litkovitz was appointed to the Southern District of Ohio bench in October 2010 and reappointed to a second eight-year term in 2018.
From 1984 to 1986, Judge Litkovitz worked as a law clerk to U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert A. Steinberg before transitioning to the Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati. In this role, she served as a senior attorney, primarily focusing her practice on Social Security disability, public assistance, domestic relations, and housing law. Judge Litkovitz returned to the United States District Court in Cincinnati in 1994 where she served as a clerk to Judge Steinberg and Judge Timothy S. Hogan, as well as a pro se law clerk for prisoner civil rights and habeas corpus cases.
Judge Litkovitz has been actively involved in numerous professional and community organizations. Judge Litkovitz is the President of the Potter Stewart Inn of Court, chair of the Cincinnati District Court Criminal Justice Act Committee, and co-chair of the Cincinnati Bar Association Diversity and Inclusion Committee’s Lawyers Connecting Beyond the Law. Judge Litkovitz is an advisory board member of Tender Mercies, which provides housing and supportive services for homeless adults with histories of mental illness. She is a Fellow of the Cincinnati Academy for Leadership of Lawyers and a member of the Federal Magistrate Judges Association. Judge Litkovitz has served as an advisory board member for the Cincinnati Bar Association, Bethany House Services, and Mercy Professional Services.
Judge Litkovitz graduated cum laude from Bowling Green State University in 1981 and from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1984..