Cathy Silak

Cathy Silak

Cathy Silak is a member of Hawley Troxell’s Litigation practice group and focuses on appellate and mediation practice. She began her career with Hawley Troxell in 1984 and became partner in 1988. From 1989 to 1990 she was Associate General Counsel of Morrison Knudsen. In 1990 Cathy was appointed by Governor Cecil D. Andrus as the first woman judge on the Idaho Court of Appeals. She was appointed in 1993 to the Idaho Supreme Court and became the Court’s Vice-Chief Justice in 1997. She served on the Supreme Court until 2000, and in 2001 she resumed her partnership with Hawley Troxell. After serving as the Founding Dean of Concordia University School of Law, Idaho from 2008-2016, Cathy became Concordia University’s Vice President of Community Engagement. Cathy has practiced law in California and Washington D.C., and was appointed an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. She also served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Idaho. Cathy received her J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, her LLM from the University of Virginia School of Law, her M.A. in City Planning from Harvard University, and her B.A. in Sociology and French Literature from New York University.