Thomas Hogan
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Thomas Francis Hogan is a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He joined the court in 1982 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan. Hogan is serving on senior status.
Early Life and Education
Born in Washington, D.C., Hogan graduated from Georgetown University with his Bachelor's Degree in 1960 and from Georgetown Law with his Juris Doctor degree in 1966.[1]
Legal Career
Hogan was a law clerk for federal judge William B. Jones in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 1966 to 1967. Hogan then served as Counsel for the Federal Commission on Reform of Federal Criminal Laws from 1967 to 1968. Hogan was a private practice attorney in Maryland and Washington, DC from 1968 to 1982. Hogan also served as Assistant Professor at Potomac School of Law, from 1977 to 1979 and at Georgetown University Law Center from 1986-1992.[1]
Federal Judicial Career
Hogan was nominated to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia by President Ronald Reagan on August 10, 1982 to a seat vacated by William Bryant. Hogan was confirmed by the Senate on August 20, 1982 on a Senate vote and received commission on August 20, 1982. Hogan served as the Chief Judge of the Court from 2001 to 2008 and assumed senior status on May 1, 2008.[1]
Judicial pay dispute
Hogan is one of eight judges pressing a claim that Congress has violated the Constitution's compensation clause by failing to honor promised judicial salary increases in five separate years. The case was thrown out on October 16, 2009, but the group of judges are appealing it to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. [2]
Ruling on Guantanamo Bay detainee
In January 2010, Hogan attracted national attention when he tossed out most of the government's evidence against Musa'ab Omar Al Madhwani, a terrorism detainee, on the grounds his confessions were coerced before he became a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. Hogan also said the government failed to establish that 23 statements the detainee made to interrogators at Guantanamo Bay were untainted by the earlier coerced statements made while he was held in Afghanistan.[3]
