James E. Rogan

James Edward Rogan ( born August 21, 1957 in San Francisco, California) is an American lawyer and politician. Between 1997 and 2001 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Rogan attended until 1977, the Chabot Community College in Livermore. Then he studied until 1979 at the University of California at Berkeley. After a subsequent law degree from UCLA and his 1983 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. Between 1985 and 1990 he was a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles County. From 1990 to 1994 he served as a municipal judge in Glendale. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1994-1996 Rogan was a deputy in the California State Assembly. In 1996, he headed the Republican faction. In August 1996 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in San Diego, was nominated for the Bob Dole for president.

In the congressional elections of 1996, Rogan was in the 27th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Carlos Moorhead on January 3, 1997. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 2001, two legislative sessions. In 1998, he was one of the congressmen who were entrusted with the implementation of the then failed impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton.

In 2000, James Rogan was not re-elected. Between 2001 and 2004, he was under the presidency of George W. Bush, Secretary of State in the Ministry of Commerce ( Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property) and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Since 2006 he has been judge of the Superior Court of California. Rogan is married and father of two daughters since 1988.