Shara L. Aranoff was the Chairman of the

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from 2005 to 2014. Aranoff was nominated to the Commission by President

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on April 27, 2005 for the term ending December 16, 2012. Her nomination was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 29, 2005, and she was sworn in as a member of the Commission on September 6, 2005. President Bush designated her Vice Chairman of the ITC for the term June 17, 2006 through June 16, 2008. He subsequently named her Chairman for the term June 17, 2008, through June 16, 2010.

Government service

Prior to her appointment Aranoff was Senior International Trade Counsel on the Democratic staff of the

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, where she was responsible for legislative and policy issues on international trade and investment, including the Trade Act of 2002; negotiations involving the

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, the

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, and numerous free trade agreements; trade remedy laws; Trade Adjustment Assistance; and trade-related environment and labor issues. From June 1993 until her Senate Finance Committee appointment in January 2001, she served as an Attorney-Advisor in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. International Trade Commission. Earlier in her career, Shara Aranoff was an Associate at the

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law firm of Steptoe & Johnson, specializing in international trade and public international law. Prior to that, she served as a judicial clerk for Herbert P. Wilkins, Associate Justice,

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Early life and education

Originally from

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, Aranoff is married to David Korn; they have two children and reside in

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. Chairman Aranoff holds a bachelor of arts degree, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at

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. She received her J.D. from

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. He attended the

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, in Geneva, Switzerland as a

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from 1984–1985.

Selected writings

*Industrial Biotechnology

References

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