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CIT Senior Judge Donald Pogue Dies

Court of International Trade Senior Judge Donald Pogue died on Oct. 26, the CIT confirmed. Pogue, chief judge from 2010 to 2014, was 69. He was appointed to the court in 1995 by President Bill Clinton and served on Connecticut's…

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Superior Court before then, according to his CIT bio (here). "On behalf of [the Customs and International Trade Bar Association], I express our condolences to Judge Pogue’s family and colleagues," said Lawrence Friedman, president of CITBA. "He was an asset to the Court of International Trade and to the customs and trade bar. He was uniformly respected by all practitioners who appeared before him," Friedman said. "Personally, I always enjoyed my interactions with Judge Pogue both in the courtroom and at events outside the court. He always struck me as genuinely concerned about the parties and the lawyers that appeared before him and worked with him." CIT had no immediate comment.