Kimba Wood
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Kimba Wood (born 1944) is a U.S. federal judge. She was Bill Clinton's second unsuccessful nominee for attorney general in 1993. Like Clinton's previous nominee, Zoe Baird, Wood had hired an illegal immigrant as a nanny; although, unlike Baird, she had paid the required taxes on the employee and had broken no laws, the threat of a repetition of the same controversy ultimately led to a withdrawal of the nomination. Janet Reno was later nominated and confirmed for the post.
Later, in 1998, Judge Wood presided over the case of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem v. Christie's Auction House, in which the ownership of the Archimedes Palimpsest was disputed. Judge Wood also later presided over Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc., 88 F.Supp.2d 116 (1996), more widely known as the Pepsi Points Case.