Dan A. Polster
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| Dan A. Polster | |
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | |
| Assumed office August 3, 1998 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | David Dudley Dowd, Jr. |
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| Born | 1951 (age 72–73) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard College Harvard Law School |
Dan A. Polster (born 1951) is a United States federal judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Polster received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1972 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1976. He was a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1976 to 1982, and an assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Ohio from 1982 to 1998.
On July 31, 1997, Polster was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio vacated by David D. Dowd. Polster was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 31, 1998, and received his commission on August 3, 1998.
Sources
- Dan A. Polster at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a public domain publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
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| Preceded by | Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio 1998–present |
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- Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- People from Cleveland, Ohio
- United States district court judges appointed by Bill Clinton
