Timothy M. Broas
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| United States Ambassador to the Netherlands | |
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In office March 19, 2014 – February 12, 2016 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Fay Hartog-Levin |
| Succeeded by | Adam Sterling (Acting) |
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| Born | 1954 (age 62–63) |
| Political party | Democratic |
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Boston College College of William and Mary |
| Website | Official website |
Timothy M. "Tim" Broas is an American lawyer and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Netherlands from March 19, 2014 to February 12, 2016.
Timothy M. Broas was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied economics and history at the Boston College and received his A.B. in 1976. He then studied law at the College of William & Mary and received his J.D. in 1979. From 1979 until 1980, he served as a law clerk to Justice Mark Sullivan on the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
After completing his legal clerkship in 1980, Tim Broas went on to become an associate at the New York City law firm of Conboy, Hewitt, O’Brien & Boardman. In 1983, Broas became an associate in the New York offices of Whitman & Ransom, a prominent law firm specializing in general commercial law, tax law, litigation, real estate, and employment law. After two years with Whitman & Ransom, Broas became a partner at the Anderson, Hibey & Blair law firm in Washington, DC., where he practiced white collar criminal defense law for nearly 10 years.
In 1995, Tim Broas accepted an offer to join the Washington, DC office of Winston & Strawn as a partner. As a member of the large Chicago-based law firm, Broas represented clients throughout all stages of the legal process, including criminal defense and civil litigation and trials, appeals and arbitrations. Broas regularly represented individual officers and corporation entities in industries such as banking, securities, pharmaceutical, health care, transportation, and energy. Clients represented by Broas during his time at Winston & Strawn included Otsuka America Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Ingersoll-Rand, Ltd.; Papa John’s International, Inc.; Philip Morris; Legg Mason; Alstom Holdings; and UBS Securities, LLC. Broas also represented Neil Volz, chief of staff to Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), in connection with the Jack Abramoff scandal of 2005-2006.
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