Bissoon, Cathy, 1968-

Cathy Bissoon (born May 16, 1968) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Previously, she was a United States Magistrate Judge of the same court. She was appointed to her current position by President Barack Obama and was confirmed by the United States Senate in October 2011.

Bissoon was born on May 16, 1968 in Brooklyn, New York. Bissoon's father was from Puerto Rico and her mother from Trinidad. When Bissoon was four years old, her father was killed in a stabbing close to the family home in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. Bissoon's mother later remarried and the family moved to Queens, New York. Bissoon attended Alfred University in New York, where she graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1990. She earned her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1993.