Thomas F. Hogan

Thomas Hogan


Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
In office May 19, 2014 – May 19, 2016
Preceded by	Reggie Walton
Succeeded by	Rosemary Collyer
Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts
In office October 17, 2011 – June 30, 2013
Preceded by	James Duff
Succeeded by	John Bates
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
In office June 18, 2001 – May 1, 2008
Preceded by	Norma Johnson
Succeeded by	Royce Lamberth
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia
In office August 20, 1982 – May 1, 2008
Appointed by	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	William Bryant
Succeeded by	Jeb Boasberg
Personal details
Born	Thomas Francis Hogan 1938 (age 78–79) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Education	Georgetown University (BA, JD)

Thomas Francis Hogan (born 1938 in Washington, D.C.), is a United States federal judge, who served as Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts from October 17, 2011 until June 30, 2013.

Judge Hogan was appointed as a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in August 1982 by President Ronald Reagan to a seat vacated by William B. Bryant, and became Chief Judge on June 19, 2001. Judge Hogan stepped down as chief judge and took senior status in May 2008. He also served a 2009-2016 term on the FISA Court.

He graduated from the Georgetown Preparatory School in 1956, receiving an A.B. (classical) from Georgetown University in 1960. He attended George Washington University’s masters program in American and English literature from 1960 to 1962, and he graduated with a J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1966, where he was the St. Thomas More Fellow. Following law school, Judge Hogan clerked for Judge William Blakely Jones of the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia from 1966 to 1967.

He served as counsel to the National Commission for the Reform of Federal Criminal Laws from 1967 to 1968, and was engaged in private practice from 1968 to 1982, in Rockville, Maryland, Chevy Chase, Maryland and Washington DC. He was an Assistant professor at Potomac School of Law from 1977 to 1979. He was an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center from 1986 to 1992, and has also been a Master of the Prettyman-Leventhal Inn of Court. He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Judicial Conference and served as the Judicial Confrenece's chair of the Courtroom Technology Subcommittee; Additionally his Honor served as a member of the Board of the Federal Judicial Center.