Kimberly Papillon

Kimberly Papillon is a nationally recognized expert on decision-making in law, education, business, and medicine. A regular faculty member at the National Judicial College since 2005, she has delivered over 600 lectures nationally and internationally on the neuroscience of decision-making. She has presented to more than 5,000 physicians and medical schools worldwide and was appointed to Georgetown University’s think tank for physician education. Her corporate audiences include Netflix, Google, Walmart, Clorox, and Kaiser Hospitals.

She has lectured for the High Court of New Zealand, Supreme Court of Victoria (Australia), the Canadian Judiciary, Caribbean judicial organizations, and the courts of Trinidad and Tobago and Ukraine. In the U.S., she has spoken to the National Council of Chief Judges of the State Courts of Appeal, multiple federal courts including the Ninth and Tenth Circuits, and over 25 state judiciaries.

Her lectures have been featured by the CDC, Department of Justice, SEC, Department of Education, and FDIC. She also presents regularly to bar associations, attorneys, prosecutors, defenders, and law enforcement agencies.
Ms. Papillon is an attorney with a JD from Columbia Law School and a bachelor’s from UC Berkeley. She holds neuroscience and biology certificates from Harvard, Cambridge, and Stanford Universities. She also creates nationally recognized documentaries on judicial decision-making.