Kathy Hirata Chin is a partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, where she is the senior litigation partner in the firm’s healthcare/not-for-profit practice group. Ms. Chin served as a Commissioner on the New York City Planning Commission from 1995 to 2001. She has also served on the Federal Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel for the Eastern District of New York, on Governor Mario M. Cuomo's Judicial Screening Committee for the First Judicial Department, on the Gender Bias Committee of the Second Circuit Task Force regarding Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Fairness, and on Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye’s Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections. She is currently a member of the Attorney Emeritus Advisory Council and of the Commercial Division Advisory Council, appointed by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman. Ms. Chin earned her JD from Columbia University School of Law.