Jim Rogan
| James E. Rogan | |
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| Judge of the Superior Court of California | |
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Assumed office October 3, 2006 |
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| Appointed by | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Preceded by | Susanne Shaw |
| Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | |
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In office December 10, 2001 – January 9, 2004 |
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| Appointed by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Q. Todd Dickinson |
| Succeeded by | Jon Dudas |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 27th district |
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In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Carlos Moorhead |
| Succeeded by | Adam Schiff |
| Personal details | |
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James Edward Rogan August 21, 1957 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Christine Apffel; 2 children |
James Edward Rogan (born August 21, 1957) is a judge of the Superior Court of California, adjunct law professor, author and former Member of the United States House of Representatives from California. He also formerly served as United States Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, California State Assembly Majority Leader, a judge of the California Municipal Court, a gang murder prosecutor with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office and a civil litigator in private law practice. In January 2007, George W. Bush nominated Rogan to be a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California, but the Senate failed to act on the nomination before the expiration of Bush's presidential term of office.
Rogan was born to unmarried parents, a bartender father and cocktail waitress mother, in the Mission District of San Francisco, California. Rogan's biological father abandoned his mother when he learned of the pregnancy. James was raised by his grandparents, Helen and James Kleupfer. His single mother was a convicted felon, who had worked a variety of unskilled jobs while collecting welfare and food stamps.
Rogan dropped out of high school in the tenth grade to work. Although he never completed high school formally, Rogan attended Chabot Community College — now Las Positas Community College — in Livermore, before earning a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of California at Berkeley, and later his J.D. degree from UCLA Law School, where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review. Rogan helped pay his way through law school by working as a bartender and bouncer at several of Hollywood night clubs. Rogan planned on marrying his longtime girlfriend, Terri Lemke, but the relationship did not survive his move to Los Angeles to attend law school. He married Christine Apffel in 1988; they have twin daughters.
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