Randy Katz has served as a federal prosecutor for nearly fifteen years at the U.S. Department of Justice. Randy has prosecuted a variety of significant economic crime, drug, violent crime, and child exploitation matters in addition to arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals. In 2008, Randy received the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service, one of the Department’s highest honors, for his role in Florida’s largest health care fraud prosecution. He received the 2010 Timothy Evans Memorial Award, given to the top federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida. In 2017, Randy, along with other prosecutors and agents, was awarded the Assistant Attorney General’s (“AAG”) Award for Distinguished Service for what the AAG called “one of the most significant Bank Secrecy Act and consumer fraud cases in history.” Randy was named 2018 Nationwide Prosecutor of the Year by the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association for serving as the lead trial prosecutor and obtaining a conviction in a $20 million financial fraud trial. Randy, along with other prosecutors and agents, received the 2018 Service to America Medal for Law Enforcement and National Security from the Partnership for Public Service for their work on the largest global criminal case against a money service business resulting in over a half a billion dollar financial penalty that was distributed to fraud victims. Randy was appointed by the Chief Judge of Florida’s Seventeenth Judicial Circuit to serve as on the Florida Supreme Court Circuit Professionalism Panel, where he serves as Vice-Chair. He is also Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Committee on LGBT Criminal Justice issues. Randy is a graduate of Duke Law School, with high honors, where he served on the Editorial Board of the Duke Law Journal and he graduated, with honors, from the University of Maryland at College Park. Randy clerked for the Honorable Gerald B. Tjoflat of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and worked as a litigation associate at a national law firm.