Donald Carl Pogue (May 24, 1947 – October 26, 2016) was a

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of the

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and served as Chair of the Court's Long Range Planning Committee and Budget Committee. He was appointed to the Trade Court in 1995 by President

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Biography

Education

Pogue was born in 1947 in Macomb,

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. Pogue is a ''magna cum laude''

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graduate of

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, where he received a

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degree, with highest honors in government, and has done graduate work at the

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, England. He received a

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from

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and a

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in philosophy from

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Career

Pogue engaged in private practice in

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, from 1974 to 1975 and in

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, from 1976 to 1989 with the law firm of Kestell, Pogue & Gould. He served as Director of the Connecticut branch of the

American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the largest trade union of public employees in the United States. It represents 1.3 million public sector employees and retirees, including health care workers, correcti ...

from 1975 to 1976. He served as an Adjunct Lecturer on labor law at the

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from 1979 to 1982 and assisted in teaching the

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's program on negotiations and dispute resolution for lawyers. He served as Commissioner and Chairman of the Connecticut Commissions of Hospitals and Health Care from 1989 to 1994. He served as a Judge of the

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from 1994 to 1995, presiding over criminal court in New Haven, Connecticut.

Trade Court service

On June 30, 1995, President

nominated Pogue to serve as a judge of the

, to the seat vacated by Judge

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. He was confirmed by the Senate on August 11, 1995 and received his commission on August 14, 1995. He served as chief judge of the court from 2010 to 2014. He assumed

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on July 1, 2014, and served in that status until his death on October 26, 2016.

References

External links

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Senior Judge Donald C. Pogue Biography on U.S. Court of International Trade website
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