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Douglas R. Cole
Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Incumbent
Assumed office December 5, 2019
Appointed by	Donald Trump
Preceded by	Susan J. Dlott
5th Solicitor General of Ohio
In office 2003–2006
Attorney General	Jim Petro
Preceded by	David Gormley
Succeeded by	Bill Marshall
Personal details
Born	Douglas Russell Cole 1964 (age 59–60) Janesville, Wisconsin, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Education	Ripon College (BA) University of Wisconsin (BSEE) University of Chicago (JD)

Douglas Russell Cole (born 1964) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Education

Cole earned his Bachelor of Arts from Ripon College and his Bachelor of Engineering, with honors, from the University of Wisconsin. He obtained his Juris Doctor, with high honors, from the University of Chicago Law School.

Career

Upon graduation from law school, Cole served as a law clerk to Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. From 2002 to 2006, he served as Solicitor General of Ohio in the Office of the Ohio Attorney General. In that role, he briefed and argued cases in front of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Ohio Supreme Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on behalf of the state of Ohio. From 2000 to 2003, Cole was a professor at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, where he taught courses in corporations, contracts, and law and economics.

From 2006 to 2019, he was a partner at Organ Cole LLP in Columbus, Ohio, where he represented clients in complex litigation and intellectual property matters.

Federal judicial service

On May 3, 2019, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Cole to serve as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. On May 13, 2019, President Trump nominated Cole to the seat vacated by Judge Susan J. Dlott, who assumed senior status on May 31, 2018. On June 26, 2019, a hearing on his nomination was held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. On July 18, 2019, his nomination was reported out of committee by a 16–6 vote. On December 3, 2019, the United States Senate invoked cloture on his nomination by a 62–29 vote. On December 4, 2019, his nomination was confirmed by a 63–30 vote. He received his judicial commission on December 5, 2019.

References

1. ^ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Judicial Nominees, United States Attorney Nominee, and United States Marshal Nominees – The White House". trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov. Retrieved Jul 21, 2022.
2. "Douglas R. Cole". Public Member. The Ohio Constitutional Modernization Commission. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2019.
3. "Twelve Nominations Sent to the Senate – The White House". trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov. Retrieved Jul 21, 2022.
4. "Nominations | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary". www.judiciary.senate.gov. 26 June 2019. Retrieved Jul 21, 2022.
5. "Results of Executive Business Meeting – July 18, 2019, Senate Judiciary Committee" (PDF). Retrieved Jul 21, 2022.
6. "On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture: Douglas Russell Cole to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio )". United States Senate. December 3, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
7. "On the Nomination (Confirmation: Douglas Russell Cole, of Ohio, to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio)". United States Senate. December 4, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
8. Douglas R. Cole at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

External links

• Douglas R. Cole at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
• Appearances at the U.S. Supreme Court from the Oyez Project

• 1964 births
• Living people
• 20th-century American lawyers
• 21st-century American lawyers
• 21st-century American judges
• Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
• Ohio lawyers
• Ohio State University faculty
• People from Janesville, Wisconsin
• Ripon College (Wisconsin) alumni
• Solicitors general of Ohio
• United States district court judges appointed by Donald Trump
• University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
• University of Chicago Law School alumni