Kathryn A. Calibey was admitted to practice before the Connecticut bar and the Federal District Court for the District of Connecticut in 1982. She was admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1988 and to the United States Supreme Court in 2003. She attended the University of Connecticut (B.A. 1975) and received her law degree, with honors, from Western New England School of Law in 1982.

Ms. Calibey is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the Hartford County Bar Association where she served on the Board of Directors for six years, as an Officer and is slated to be President in 2008; the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, serving on the Amicus Curiae Committee; the Connecticut Bar Association serving on the Appellate Advocacy Committee; and the American Association for Justice. She is a founding Board Member and Past-President Emeritus of the Hartford County Bar Foundation, a non-profit corporation whose sole purpose is to raise funds to benefit Hartford County's homeless and needy. She is a member of the Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society and is an Emeritus member of the Hartford Oliver Ellsworth American Inns of Court.

Ms. Calibey was an editor of the Western New England Law Review in 1981-1982 and received the 1982 Benjamin Novak Award for her law review article published in 1981. She has since authored numerous articles that have appeared in the Connecticut Bar Journal, the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Forum, and the Trial Diplomacy Journal. She currently serves on the Board of Editors for the Connecticut Bar Journal where, since 1997, she has been a Senior Editor for Civil Litigation and is also an Associate Editor of the CTLA Forum.

Ms. Calibey has served as a Special Master for the Connecticut State Superior Court and has been appointed to serve on the Judicial Civil Jury Instruction Committee, the Standing Committee on Recommendations for Admissions to the Bar and the Civil Division Rules Task Force. She was elected as a James W. Cooper Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation in 2001 where she serves on a committee compiling an Oral History of Connecticut Women in the Legal Profession and as a State High School Annual Essay Contest Judge. For many years, she taught at the University of Connecticut School of Law Moot Court Appellate Advocacy Program and since 2005 has been a faculty member of the Connecticut Bar Association Appellate Advocacy Institute. She has handled numerous appeals where she has appeared and argued before the State Appellate and Supreme Courts.