Katherine Moran Meeks, a distinguished civil litigator with more than two decades of journalism and law experience, has been appointed to the general counsel role at Fox News Media, the company announced this week.
Meeks joins from the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where she was a partner and worked in the firm’s litigation division. She succeeds Bernard Gugar, who is stepping down from his role as Fox News Media’s General Counsel and Vice President of Corporate Development.
“We are delighted to welcome Kate to Fox News Media and look forward to her tackling the legal intricacies of the ever-evolving media landscape,” Suzanne Scott, the President of Fox News Media, said on Wednesday. “We thank Bernard for his incredibly hard work and extensive contributions over the last three years and wish him the best of luck in his next role.”
“My decision to step down was a difficult one, but I’m grateful to everyone at Fox News Media for an incredibly rewarding experience and wish the network nothing but continued success,” Gugar said in a statement.
“I’m thrilled to join the most powerful and dominant news brand in the industry, especially as someone who started their career in journalism,” Meeks said.
Her career in journalism started at “The Day” newspaper in Connecticut before moving to “The Times-Picayune” in New Orleans. The newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
As a graduate at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Meeks was the editor-in-chief of the “University of Pennsylvania Law Review,” and was awarded the Oscar Milton Davis Prize for earning the highest marks in the third year. She received her bachelor’s degree from Yale University, where she was the editor-in-chief of the Yale Herald.
As a litigator, Meeks presented oral arguments before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits and in federal district courts. Before joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, she was an associate at Williams & Connolly in the firm’s Media and First Amendment practice group and earlier clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and then-Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Meeks starts at Fox News Media on August 19.
Fox News Media operates the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox Weather, Fox News Audio, Fox News Radio, Fox News Books and Fox Nation. It is a subsidiary of Fox Corporation.
