Dan Polster
Dan A. Polster | |
|---|---|
 Judge Polster in 1999 | |
| Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | |
| Assumed office August 3, 1998 | |
| Appointed by | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | David Dudley Dowd, Jr. |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Dan A. Polster 1951 (age 72–73) Cleveland, Ohio |
| Education | Harvard College (A.B.) Harvard Law School (J.D.) |
Dan A. Polster (born 1951) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
Education and career
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Polster received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Harvard College in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1976. He was a trial attorney in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice from 1976 to 1982, and an Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Ohio from 1982 to 1998.
Federal judicial service
On July 31, 1997, Polster was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio vacated by David Dudley Dowd, Jr. Polster was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 31, 1998, and received his commission on August 3, 1998.
In December 2017, a federal judicial panel selected Polster to preside over more than 200 consolidated prescription opioid-related lawsuits in multidistrict litigation.[1][2]
References
- ^ Hoffman, Jan. "Can This Judge Solve the Opioid Crisis?", The New York Times, 5 March 2018.
- ^ Heisig, Eric. "Here's why a federal judge presiding over opioid lawsuits thinks settling is important", Cleveland.com, 19 January 2018.