This fall, three alumni of NYU Law’s Graduate Tax Program—Jeffrey Arbeit LLM ’11, Cathy Fung LLM ’04, and Rose Jenkins LLM ’12—were nominated by President Joe Biden and confirmed by the US Senate to serve 15-year terms as judges on the United States Tax Court.
“The reputation of the Tax Program at NYU is based in large part on the success our graduates realize in the tax profession,” says Brant Hellwig LLM ’00, faculty director of the Graduate Tax Program. “We are extremely proud of the recent appointments of our alumni as judges of the United States Tax Court, where they will play a central role in the interpretation of our tax laws and in the administration of our tax system overall.”
From 2015 to 2024, Arbeit worked as a legislation counsel on the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation of the US Congress, focusing on international tax and issues related to financial assets, transactions, and markets. Before that, he worked for four years as a tax associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and clerked for two years for Judge James Halpern of the United States Tax Court. At Boston University School of Law, where he earned his JD, Arbeit was a member of the Boston University Law Review, and at NYU Law he served on the Tax Law Review.
Fung served for 15 years in the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Chief Counsel, where she was most recently deputy area counsel in the Litigation & Advisory Division (formerly Large Business & International). She worked as a tax controversy and litigation associate at Dewey Ballantine from 2006 to 2009 and was a law clerk to Judge Robert Wherry of the United States Tax Court. In addition to her JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her LLM in Taxation from NYU Law, Fung holds an LLM in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown University Law Center.
Jenkins joined the Tax Court after working as an attorney in the IRS’s Office of Chief Counsel (Procedure & Administration). From 2021 to 2023, she was a senior attorney advisor at NYU Law’s Tax Law Center and from 2020 to 2021, a managing director in the international tax group at KPMG Washington National Tax. During an earlier tenure at the IRS, she held various positions, including senior counsel and special counsel, in the Office of Chief Counsel (International). Jenkins was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom from 2008 to 2013 and has served as a member of the New York State Bar Association Tax Section Executive Committee.
Posted December 20, 2024